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