Dulcima [DVD]

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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play This acclaimed drama feature casts Cathy Come Home star Carol White as a young woman whose determined efforts to escape a life of rural poverty lead to complications & worse; Oscar winner John Mills is the lonely ageing farmer with whom she finds work accommodation & the promise of easy money An earthy sympathetic adaptation of HE Bates& novel Dulcima earned director Frank Nesbitt a Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival in 1971 This rare much sought-after film is now presented in a br&-new transfer from the original elements Dulcima a pretty girl treated as a drudge by her family lifts herself from her environment by becoming housekeeper to Parker a curmudgeonly widower living in drunken disarray on a neighbouring farm When she sees the amount of money he has stashed around the place Dulcima is happy enough to indulge his growing desire for her & a strange yet mutually beneficial relationship develops But a handsome young gamekeeper newly arrived on a nearby estate also catches Dulcima&s eye