The Woodlanders
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Phil Agland
Rufus Sewell
Polly Walker
Jodhi May
Tony Haygarth
Cal Macaninch
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
Giles is a woodsman and cider-maker who is informally engaged to Grace. When Grace returns from finishing school she finds herself increasingly estranged from her background and environment. Encouraged by her social-climbing father Melbury, a former woodsman who is now a self-made merchant, she shuns Giles and enters into an unhappy marriage with the newly arrived local doctor, FitzPiers. He is, like Grace, a displaced soul.
Director
Phil Agland
Cast
Rufus Sewell
Polly Walker
Jodhi May
Tony Haygarth
Cal Macaninch
Emily Woof
Walter Sparrow
Sheila Burrell
Michael Culkin
Amanda Ryan
Lara J West
Robert Blythe
William Harry
Jon Croft
William Chubb
Andrew Tansey
Geoffrey Beevers
Caroline John
Dawn Mcdaniel
Vincent Franklin
Sam Rowe
Emily Joyce
Kate Blackham
Jennifer Luckraft
Tara Woodward
Justin Grattan
Martin Walsh
Crew
Phil Agland
Geoffrey Alexander
John Anderson
Tim Arrowsmith
David Boardman
Peter Bond
Stuart Brisdon
Susannah Buxton
Ed Colyer
Ed Colyer
Felicity Cottrell
Graham Daniel
Steve Dent
David Dickie
John Downer
Howard Eaves
Louis Elman
Sally Ann Ewins
Michael Feinberg
Michael Feinberg
George Fenton
George Fenton
Susie Figgis
John Frankish
Rosemary Furniss
Tracey Gallacher
Rodney Glenn
Brian Green
Thomas Hardy
Andy Harris
William Hawkes
Brian Hawkins
Lil Heyman
Mark Holding
Mark Huffam
Konrad Jay
David Kilshaw
Ray Merrin
John Midgley
Barbara Mulcahy
Andy Nicholson
Clive Pendry
Patsy Pollock
Steve Price
Andy Pryor
Barney Reisz
George Robertson
Peter Robertson
Ashley Rowe
David Rudkin
Jonathan Rutter
Graeme Scott
Aileen Seaton
Adrian Smith
Ken Somerville
Ken Somerville
Richard Southcombe
Eddie Stacey
Amanda Stevens
Gail Stevens
Jack Stew
Richard Styles
Eliza Thompson
Dave Townsend
Rebecca Tucker
Lesley Walker
Fiona Weir
Liz West
Jonathan Williams
Gavyn Wright
Geoff Young
Film Details
Technical Specs
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Miscellaneous Notes
Winner Best Film and Best Director (Phil Agland) at the 1997 Shanghai International Film Festival.
Released in United States 1997
Released in United States on Video June 28, 2005
Released in United States November 1997
Shown at the Shanghai International Film Festival October 24 - November 2, 1997.
Shown at London Film Festival November 6-23, 1997.
An adaption of Thomas Hardy's classic novel, set in Dorset in the 1870's.
Feature film directorial debut for documentary filmmaker Phil Agland.
Completed shooting May 10, 1996.
Began shooting October 9, 1995.
Production wrapped on December 6, 1995 and started again in the spring of 1996 for three weeks.
Released in United States 1997
Released in United States on Video June 28, 2005
Released in United States 1997 (Shown at the Shanghai International Film Festival October 24 - November 2, 1997.)
Released in United States November 1997 (Shown at London Film Festival November 6-23, 1997.)
