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User Rating:
7.6/10   203 votes
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Director:
David Attwood
Writers:
Tony Basgallop (screenplay)
William Golding (novels)
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Release Date:
6 July 2005 (UK) more
Genre:
Drama more
Tagline:
An Epic Journey of Self Discovery
Awards:
1 win & 10 nominations more
User Comments:
Horatio Hornblower by Leo Tolstoy more

Cast

  (Series Cast overview, first billed only)

Additional Details

Also Known As:
"To the Ends of the Earth: Close Quarters" (UK) (second part title)
"To the Ends of the Earth: Fire Down Below" (UK) (third part title)
"To the Ends of the Earth: Rites of Passage" (UK) (first part title)
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Runtime:
267 min (3 parts)
Country:
UK
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Sound Mix:
Stereo
Certification:
UK:15

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Soundtrack:
Here's a Health Unto His Majesty more

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35 out of 39 people found the following comment useful:-
Horatio Hornblower by Leo Tolstoy, 6 November 2006
10/10
Author: B24 from Arizona

The three-part series ended last night on PBS, which I believe was its first wide exposure to an American audience. The richness of its text and the unique quality of its filming are high points. It seems very novel to view and hear an action play employing the vernacular of Georgian England, Jane Austen's filmed drawing rooms being the primary example of that form of speech. Yet it is the scope of drama overwhelming the senses that makes quaint language fit perfectly into each and every scene. Such bold exposure to an old reality is evocative of literary giants like Tolstoy or Shakespeare while at the same time entertaining in the manner of a C. S. Forester or Patrick O'Brian sea saga. The universality of basic human condition lies at its center.

Narrator Talbot as played by an actor with the almost perfectly appropriate name of Benedict Cumberbatch (surely not even Dickens could beat that one!) alternates between stodgy jingoism and extreme vulnerability, an acting tour de force. Indeed, I cannot recall among this very fine cast any misstep of interpretation. That is a tribute not only to the actors themselves, but to the director as well.

The most impressive element, however, is how perfectly life aboard a man-of-war en route to Australia in the early 1800's is presented. That is especially true of how the motion of the ship becomes almost a character itself, something sea stories rarely take into account except as backdrop. Anyone who has ever experienced mal de mer in person will recognize it instantly, and appreciate all the more how difficult it must have been to recreate within the context of filming.

This is no fanciful Pirates of the Caribbean. Some effort must be expended in attaining an understanding of its nuances.

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