Release, runtime and language

1987 · 357 mins · English

Directed by

Christine Edzard

Starring

David Thewlis, Robert Morley, Eleanor Bron, Alec Guinness, Cyril Cusack, Ruth Sheen

A period drama adapted from Charles Dickens’s novel, it follows Arthur Clennam as he becomes entangled in the bleak world of a debtor’s prison and encounters Amy Dorrit, a young seamstress whose father has endured twenty‑five years of incarceration. The film was originally released in two parts.