Project Detail

The Intended

Name: The Intended
Director: Kristian Levring
Genre: Woman Director, Drama
Released: 2002
Duration: tbc

Synopsis

The story of a couple's quest for happiness. Set in the 1920s, a forty-year-old woman Sarah and her young lover Hamish travel to an ivory trading post, deep in the jungle. Run with an iron fist by the domineering Mrs Jones, her avaricious son William and his elderly scheming nanny Erina. The influence of the newcomers on the small strained group of inhabitants unleashes greed, murder and madness: a tragedy where everyone is the victim of each others broken dreams.

Details

Year: 2002
Type of project: Features
Running time: tbc
Format: 35mm
Director: Kristian Levring
Producer: Sally Hibbin
Executive Producer: Sally Hibbin
Editor: Nicholas Wayman Harris
Screenwriter: Kristian Levring, Janet McTeer
Director of Photography: Jens Schlosser
Sound: Stuart Wilson
Principal cast: Janet McTeer, JJ Feild, Olympia Dukakis, Brenda Fricker

Genre

Woman Director Drama

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Parallax Pictures

7 Denmark Street
London WC2H 8LS
UK

T 00 44 (0)20 7836 1478

Sales Company

The Works

4 Great Portland Street
London W1W 8QJ
UK

T 00 44 (0)20 7612 1080

www.theworksltd.com

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