Swept From The Sea
Synopsis
To the world, Amy Foster is a girl who never smiles, but beneath her passive exterior, there is hidden passion. Amy is a pagan spirit, a collector of gifts from the sea. Her world is irrevocably changed when the sea delivers the most beautiful and most impossible of gifts.
Yanko Gooral is an adventurer who has left his Ukrainian homeland in search of a new world - America. When Yanko is washed overboard by a murderous tempest he finds himself a stranger in hostile land. When he crosses the threshold into Amy's world, however, they form a bond too powerful to be broken by the hate and suspicion the ignorant masses of Cornwall rain down on them.
Based on the short story by Joseph Conrad, Swept From The Sea tells a powerful and vital story about the transformative power of love and the resiliency of the human heart.
Details
- Year
- 1998
- Type of project
- Features
- Running time
- 114 mins.
- Format
- 35mm Kodak
- Director
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Beeban Kidron
- Producer
- Polly Tapson, Charles Steel
- Director of Photography
- Dick Pope
- Principal cast
- Vincent Perez, Rachel Weisz, Ian McKellan, Joss Akland and Kathy Bates
- Screen Writer
- Tim Willocks
Categories
Production Status
Production Company
Tapson Steel Films Ltd 24 Hanway Street London W1P 9DD Tel: 020 7636 0033 Fax: 020 7636 0043
Sales Company
as Production Company
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