SCREEN TWO: The COUNT OF SOLAR

(1992)

Copyright date
Not available
Production start date
04/02/1991
Production end date
Not available

Production countries

  • Great Britain
Notes
Shown as part of 'Screen Two' series.

Library Synopsis

Set in France just before the French Revolution. A true story of Joseph, a young boy who is deaf and dumb and who tries to gain his inheritance as the Count of Solar. The case of the count of Solar was important becuase it established for the first time the viability of sign language, codifed and publicised by the Abbé de l'Epée.

Top five credits

Director
POWELL, Tristram
Production Company
BBC Films
Executive Producer
SHIVAS, Mark
Producer
CALEB, Ruth
Production Associate
MONTAGU, Carolyn

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Top five cast

Joseph
WOOLFE, Tyron
Jean
CASEY, Paul
physician
ADAMS, Jonathan
surgeon
NEEDHAM, Peter
aristocratic woman
BEST, Samantha

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