Nathaniel Hawthorne's Rappaccini's Daughter
Description
Set in 18th-century Italy, Nathaniel Hawthorne's Rappaccini's Daughter is the tale of a young scholar named Giovanni (Kristoffer Tabori) who falls in love with a beautiful yet forbidden girl who tends her father's poison garden. The strange and unearthly beauty of Beatrice (Kathleen Beller) masks a terrifying curse which Giovanni must tragically discover. Her father, the mysterious Dr. Rappaccini, has made her the subject of a diabolical experiment. In Giovanni's attempt to free Beatrice from the control of her father and to escape the poisonous effect she begins to have on him, he unwittingly destroys her. From the short story of master American novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne, two quintessential Hawthornian themes are explored: the sin of interfering with another's soul and the futility of trying to tamper with nature.
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60 min
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Date of Publication
[2011], c1980
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Films on Demand
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