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The Drunkard's Lament

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A strange, epistolary and revisionist musical adaptation of Wuthering Heights written by the consumptive brother Branwell Brontë. When Branwell - the ne'er-do-well, tubercular brother of the Brontë sisters - discovered that Emily was writing her first novel, he offered to be her editor. Once he realized that he was the model for the alcoholic Hindley Earnshaw character, he reimagined the story as a musical memoir of his own life with Hindley as the hero. Reconstructed from Branwell's letters to his friend Francis Leyland along with notes, sheet music and damaged film fragments - this 1898 film originally premiered on the 50th anniversary of the consumption deaths of Branwell and Emily Brontë.

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Jim Finn
Director
Jim Finn
Writer

Cast

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Isabella Pinheiro
Cathy Linton
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Linda Montano
Hindley Earnshaw
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Murray Gordon
Heathcliff
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Nandini Khaund
The Widow
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Paul Tarragó
Branwell Brontë (voice)

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