The Drunkard's Lament

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The Drunkard's Lament

The Branwell Wuthering Heights 1898

A strange, epistolary and revisionist musical adaptation of Wuthering Heights written by the consumptive brother Branwell Brontë. When Branwell - the ne'er-do-well, tubercular brother of the Brontë sisters - discovered that Emily was writing her first novel, he offered to be her editor. Once he realized that he was the model for the alcoholic Hindley Earnshaw character, he reimagined the story as a musical memoir of his own life with Hindley as the hero. Reconstructed from Branwell's letters to his friend Francis Leyland along with notes, sheet music and damaged film fragments - this 1898 film originally premiered on the 50th anniversary of the consumption deaths of Branwell and Emily Brontë.

Release Date

2018-04-12

Year

2018

Duration

40m

Status

Released

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Cast

Isabella Pinheiro

Isabella Pinheiro

Cathy Linton

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Linda Montano

Hindley Earnshaw

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Murray Gordon

Heathcliff

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Nandini Khaund

The Widow

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Paul Tarragó

Branwell Brontë (voice)

Sally Timms

Sally Timms

Singer (voice)

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Cosmina Mazza Finn

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Franz Mazza Finn

Linton Heathcliff

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Cat Mazza

Jim Finn

Jim Finn