Project Detail

Oliver Twist

Name: Oliver Twist
Director: Roman Polanski
Genre: Literary Adaptation, Children’s, Drama
Released: 2005
Duration: 128 mins

Synopsis

Set in 1848, Oliver Twist is the story of an orphan, born in a workhouse and brought up in harsh and cruel conditions, half-starved by the corrupt parish authorities. He is unlucky enough to be chosen to ask for more gruel and is immediately found employment in an undertaker’s establishment where he is treated quite as badly as he was in the workhouse. He escapes and makes his way to London where he falls in with the Artful Dodger, a boy of his own age, who introduces him to the villainous Fagin. Fagin runs a gang of boys who are pickpockets and thieves, and whose associates are Bill Sykes, a violent criminal, and his girlfriend, Nancy.

Oliver is caught up in a series of misadventures in which he is wrongly accused of thieving, is taken in by Mr Brownlow, a kindly benefactor, and is recaptured by Fagin. Forced to take part in a robbery with Bill Sykes, Oliver is saved by the humanity of Nancy who betrays her former friends. Bill Sykes murders her and is himself eventually trapped but dies before he can be arrested. Oliver is taken in by Mr Brownlow and given the promise of a better life.

Details

Year: 2005
Type of project: Features
Running time: 128 mins
Format: 35mm
Director: Roman Polanski
Producer: Timothy Burrill, Petr Moravec
Editor: Herve De Luze
Screenwriter: Ronald Harwood
Director of Photography: Pawel Edelman
Production Designer: Allan Starski
Sound: Jean-Marie Blondel
Composer: Rachel Portman
Principal cast: Sir Ben Kingsley, Barney Clark, Jamie Foreman, Leanne Rowe, Harry Eden, Mark Strong, Edward Hardwicke

Genre

Literary Adaptation Children’s Drama

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

RP Films S.A.S (FR)

Runteam II Limited (UK)
Etic Films s.r.o (CZ)

19 Cranbury Road

London SW6 2NS
UK

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timothy@timothyburrill.co.uk

Sales Company

Summit Entertainment

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