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Tess

Year:

1980

Duration:

Genres:

Drama | Romance

IMDB rate:

7.3

Director:

Roman Polanski

Awards:

Won 3 Oscars. Another 14 wins & 12 nominations

Details

Country: France

Release Date: 1980-12-12

Filming Locations: Château Brocéliande, Paimpont, Ille-et-Vilaine, France

Earnings

Budget: $12,000,000

Gross: $20,093,330 (USA) ( 1981)

Cast

Actor

Character

Lesley Dunlop

John Collin

John Durbeyfield

Tony Church

Parson Tringham

Nastassja Kinski

Tess

Brigid Erin Bates

Girl in meadow

Jeanne Biras

Girl in meadow

Peter Firth

Angel Clare

John Bett

Felix Clare

Tom Chadbon

Cuthbert Clare

Rosemary Martin

Mrs. Durbeyfield

Geraldine Arzul

Child

Stephanie Treille

Child

Elodie Warnod

Child

Ben Reeks

Child

Jack Stephens

Man in Tavern

Leigh Lawson

Alec d'Urberville

Maryline Even

Girl in henhouse

Jean-Jacques Daubin

Bailiff

Sylvia Coleridge

Mrs. d'Urberville

Jacob Weizbluth

Yokel at barn-dance (as Jacob Weisbluth)

Peter Benson

Religious Fanatic

Jacques Mathou

Harvester

Véronique Alain

Harvester (as Veronique Alain)

Richard Pearson

Vicar of Marlott

Fred Bryant

Dairyman Crick

John Barrett

Old dairy hand

Anne Tirard

Old dairy hand (as Ann Tirard)

Carolyn Pickles

Marian

Suzanna Hamilton

Izz

Caroline Embling

Retty

Josine Comellas

Mrs. Crick

Arielle Dombasle

Mercy Chant

David Markham

Reverend Mr. Clare

Pascale de Boysson

Mrs. Clare

Gordon Richardson

Parson at wedding

Patsy Smart

Housekeeper

Dicken Ashworth

Farmer Groby

Jimmy Gardner

Pedlar

Reg Dent

Carter

John Gill

Landlord

Forbes Collins

New tenant

Keith Buckley

Postman

John Moore

Postman

Patsy Rowlands

Landlady

Graham Weston

Constable

Lina Roxa

Caretaker

Did you know?

Trivia

The principal photography period for this film ran for around ten months.

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For this picture, costume designer Anthony Powell won his third and final consecutive Academy Award in this category after previously winning the Oscar for Death on the Nile (1978) and Travels with My Aunt (1972). Since _Tess (1979), Powell was nominated for Costume Design again three more times, with the reverse happening, and losing all three times.

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Many movie posters for the film featured a long text preamble that read: "She was born into a world where they called it seduction, not rape. What she did would shatter that world forever. She was a poor man's daughter, an aristocrat's mistress and a gentleman's wife. She was Tess, a victim of her own provocative beauty. Columbia Pictures is proud to present a film by Roman Polanski, based on the classic Thomas Hardy novel. 'TESS'. As timely today as the day it was written".

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Goofs

At the beginning of the final sequence, set at Stonehenge, someone's head can be seen at bottom-left.

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At 4:21, camera shadow on Durbeyfield's back. This shadow extends entirely across the path. At 4:44, as the parson and Durbeyfield talk, the shadow is gone.

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When Tess and Angel break in to the house when on the run, the mic boom pole is reflected in the door beside the broken glass panel Angel had just forced.

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Quotes

John Durbeyfield: Good night, t'ee.

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Angel Clare: She's sleeping. Just a little longer?

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