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Publisher
Music Box Films
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (257 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Raul Ruiz's masterful adaptation of the eponymous nineteenth-century Portuguese novel. The core story centers on Joao, the bastard child of an ill-fated romance between two members of the aristocracy who are forbidden to marry, and his quest to discover the truth of his parentage. But this is just the start of an engrossing tale that follows a multitude of characters whose fates conjoin, separate and then rejoin again over three decades in Portugal,...
Series
Publisher
Televisa Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (ca. 714 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The product of a forbidden love affair, Juan de Dios is taken away and abandoned by his mother's sister to an orphanage at birth. Reunited with his father as an adult, he swears an oath of revenge on his father's deathbed and changes his name to Juan de Diablo. When he returns to Mexico to fulfill his oath, he is torn between twin sisters, the passionate Aimee and the virtuous Regina who turn out to be the daughters of his most hated enemy.
3) Character
Publisher
Sony Pictures Classics
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (125 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Dreverhaven is dead. The city's most feared bailiff, the curse of the poor, the agent of law without compassion--discovered with a knife through his heart. A self-taught lawyer who just passed his exams was the last person to see Dreverhaven alive. Now, the police want to know why he visited the old man, and the young barrister is ready to tell the story of a lifetime.
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