Little Dorrit

Year: 1987

Runtime: 357 mins

Language: English

Director: Christine Edzard

Drama

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.

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