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The Forsyte Saga - Complete 1st and 2nd Series (2002) [DVD]

The Forsyte Saga - Complete 1st and 2nd Series (2002) [DVD]
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  • Sales Rank:30,467
  • Format:PAL
  • Language:English (Original Language)
  • Number Of Discs:4
  • Running Time:699 Minutes
  • Rating:Suitable for 12 years and over
  • Region:2
  • Discs:4
  • Shipping Weight (lbs):0.8
  • Dimensions (in):7.5 x 5.5 x 1.4
  • Release Date:July 12, 2004
  • EAN:5014138300098
  • ASIN:B000260NMM
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Amazon.co.uk Review
The Forsyte Saga is often cited as the first television miniseries; it wasn't, but there is no question that it was a singular, powerful cultural phenomenon that deservedly got under the skin of viewers in 1967. Today the 26-episode production, based on several novels and short stories by John Galsworthy, seems like a more timeless enterprise than many of the protracted TV dramas that have followed. While it would be wrong to consider The Forsyte Saga high art, it is certainly a mesmerising and inspired mix of theatre, sprawling Victorian narrative, thinking man's soap opera and some finely tuned, 1960s black-and-white production values that (especially when shot outdoors) are strikingly handsome.

Above all, Forsyte is driven by its characters--perhaps to an extreme, though the two-generation story line makes no apologies for creating compelling people whose capacity for short-sighted blundering, bursts of grace and slow-brewing redemption make them recognisably human. Eric Porter towers over everything as Soames Forsyte, a humourless attorney whose guiding principles of measurable value cause great heartache but slowly evolve, leaving him a greying, good father, arts patron and sympathetic repository of memory. From the cast of 150 or so, other standouts include Susan Hampshire as Soames's troubled daughter, Nyree Dawn Porter as the wife of two very different Forsyte men and Kenneth More as the family's artistic black sheep. --Tom Keogh


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