1 Season
4 Episode
Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Season 1 Episode 1 Part One
A thrilling story of seduction, love and betrayal.
On a fine May afternoon, the beautiful and innocent Tess Durbeyfield spies a handsome young stranger at a village dance, but he ignores her. Forced by family hardship to seek support from her 'relatives' the D'Urbervilles, apparently an ancient lineage, she falls under the spell of her manipulative 'cousin' Alec - with shocking and lasting consequences.
- Year: 2008
- Country:
- Genre: Drama
- Studio: BBC One
- Keyword: england, based on novel or book, romance, miniseries, poverty, nobility, costume drama, 19th century
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- Cast: Gemma Arterton, Eddie Redmayne, Hans Matheson, Ruth Jones, Christopher Fairbank, Ian Puleston-Davies