Airing | 2/28, 10:00p

Tess (1979)

3h 0m | PG | Drama

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Director: Roman Polanski

Cast: Nastassja Kinski, Peter Firth, Leigh Lawson, John Collin, David Markham, Rosemary Martin, Richard Pearson, Carolyn Pickles, Pascale de Boysson, Tony Church, John Bett

In Roman Polanski's take on "Tess of the D'Urbervilles," impressionable young Tess (Nastassja Kinski) is sent by her alcoholic father to visit her rich relatives and apply for a job. She's taken in and immediately seduced by her cousin, Alec (Leigh Lawson), who leaves her pregnant. She keeps it to herself and, after the child dies, begins a relationship with a respectable farmer, Angel (Peter Firth). They marry, but when Angel learns of her speckled past, he's not sure he can live with it.

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