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Ronald Harwood

    9. listopad 1934 – 8. září 2020

    Ronald Harwood je oceňovaný autor, dramatik a scenárista, známý především svými divadelními hrami pro britské publikum. Jeho scénáře k filmům zachycují hluboké lidské příběhy s mimořádnou citlivostí. Harwood dokáže zkoumat složité emoce a mezilidské vztahy prostřednictvím silných dramatických oblouků. Jeho práce rezonuje s diváky díky své pronikavosti a mistrovskému vyprávění.

    New Stories 3
    All the World's a Stage
    Made in Yorkshire
    The Handyman
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    • The Handyman

      • 136 stránek
      • 5 hodin čtení

      Cressida and Julian Field live comfortably in the English countryside with their elderly Ukrainian odd-job man and friend of the family, Romka. Suddenly, the police arrive. What has Romka done? Is he guilty? Is there a time limit on revenge and punishment? The Handyman looks at questions surrounding culpability, retribution, universal responsibility and the possibility of evil.

      The Handyman
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    • Made in Yorkshire

      • 272 stránek
      • 10 hodin čtení

      Made in Yorkshire is a glorious celebration of all the feature films shot in the county from the inception of film to the present day including in-depth accounts of more than 30 films.Written by Tony Earnshaw, the Yorkshire Post's film critic and Artistic Director of the Bradford International Film Festival. Many of the 330 photographs have been taken over a 25-year period by Jim Moran, one of the Yorkshire Post's senior and award-winning photographers.A foreword to the book is written by Oscar-winning screenwriter Ronald Harwood whose film The Dresser, shot in Bradford, York and Halifax, features prominently.Other photographs have been sourced from most of Yorkshire's newspapers, the general public and people who worked on the films. Many of these have never been seen before languishing either in basement filing cabinets or dresser drawers. The book contains unusual and sometimes exclusive location photographs of Bette Davis, James Mason, Albert Finney, Dustin Hoffman, Sophia Loren, Richard Gere, Ewan McGregor, Paul Newman, David Niven, Catherine Tate, Tom Wilkinson, Maggie Smith, Jeremy Irons and Anthony Hopkins.Features interviews with Morgan Freeman, John Schlesinger, Julie Christie, David Tennant, Ken Loach, Sir Tom Courtenay, Ralph Fiennnes, Jenny Agutter, Mark Herman, Catherine Tate, Michael Palin, Alan Bennett and others about their experiences filming in Yorkshire.

      Made in Yorkshire
    • All the World's a Stage

      • 320 stránek
      • 12 hodin čtení

      A history of the development of theater from Aristophanes to Arthur Miller, Plautus to Beckett. -- Dust jacket.

      All the World's a Stage