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Swept from The Sea

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Released: 1998-07-14

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Swept from The Sea DVD Cast & Features Cast:
Vincent Perez, Rachel Weisz, Ian McKellen, Joss Ackland, Kathy Bates, Tom Bell, Zoe Wannamaker, Anthony Haygarth, Fiona Victory

Director(s): Beeban Kidron

Features:
Interactive menus
Languages: English [2-channel and 5.1 Dolby Digital], Spanish, French
Subtitles: English, Spanish, French
Theatrical trailer
Scene selections
Widescreen and full screen formats

Swept from The Sea DVD Details

Video:
Cinemascope, Pre-1954 Standard
Audio:
Dolby Digital w/ sub-woofer channel
Dolby Digital Stereo
Language:
English
French
Spanish
Subtitles:
English, French, Spanish

Running Time: 114
Genre: Drama
Item Weight: 1
UPC: 043396216495
Product Code: CTR21649DVD
Format: DVD
Year:1997
Studio: Sony Pictures

Swept from The Sea DVD Summary Swept From the Sea was inspired by a short story by Joseph Conrad.

Set in late 19th-century Cornwall England in a small farming community, the story is told via flashback in a conversation between Dr.

James Kennedy (Ian McKellen) and his patient Miss Swaffer (Kathy Bates).

Dr.

Kennedy despises indentured servant Amy Foster (Rachel Weisz).

Miss Swaffer asks why, and so he recounts the love that blossomed between Amy and Yanko Goorall (Vincent Perez), a shipwrecked Russian who was trying to get to America.

Born prior to her parent's wedding, Amy was relegated to a servant's life by rigid British society.

Yanko was the sole survivor of a Russian shipwreck and he met Amy when he wandered onto her master's farm looking for food and shelter.

Frightened and suspicious, no one but Amy is willing to help the bedraggled foreigner.

Yanko eventually becomes a laborer for the Swaffer family.

As he could speak no English at first, they know nothing of his origins.

It is Dr.

Kennedy who deduces his nationality after Yanko proves his mettle at chess.

Impressed, the doctor offers English lessons in exchange for chess tutorials.

In time, Kennedy comes to regard Yanko as a son.

As soon as Yanko is able to converse, he asks about the maid who saved him, Amy.

A love blossoms between them, one that deeply disturbs Kennedy.

Still, he cannot prevent Swaffer from setting them up with land and a home so they can marry.

A son is born, but Yanko is unable to withstand the harshness of Cornwall life, and tragedy ensues.

Kennedy blames Amy for the tragic turn of events, but Miss Swaffer intervenes and tells the doctor the heartbreaking true circumstances surrounding Yanko.