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A Tale of two cities

A gripping adaptation of Charles Dickens' immortal story of love and honor set against the fiery backdrop of the French Revolution. Living in exile in England, beautiful young Lucie Manette is pursued by two suitors: fellow French exile Charles Darnay and dissolute Englishman Sydney Carton. Even though Sydney openly declares that he would make the ultimate sacrifice for her, Lucie chooses Charles, unaware of his secret past and noble heritage.

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  • "A gripping adaptation of Charles Dickens' immortal story of love and honor set against the fiery backdrop of the French Revolution. Living in exile in England, beautiful young Lucie Manette is pursued by two suitors: fellow French exile Charles Darnay and dissolute Englishman Sydney Carton. Even though Sydney openly declares that he would make the ultimate sacrifice for her, Lucie chooses Charles, unaware of his secret past and noble heritage."@en
  • "Set during the French Revolution, the story of a British lawyer who sacrifices himself to save another from the guillotine."
  • "In the dock of a British courtroom, French aristocrat Charles Darnay stands accused of spying. The outlook appears grim until som e last-minute help comes from the mysterious Sydney Carton. Darnay goes free and makes plans to marry Lucie Manette. Carton keeps his love for her to himself, yet assures her that he would make the ultimate sacrifice for her. As the characters are swept into the maelstrom of the French Revolution, that long-ago promise will become Carton's last hope of redemption for his own soul."@en
  • ""In the dock of a British courtroom, French aristocrat Charles Darnay stands accused of spying. The outlook appears grim until some last-minute help comes from the mysterious Sydney Carton. Darnay goes free and makes plans to marry Lucie Manette. Carton keeps his love for her to himself, yet assures her that he would make the ultimate sacrifice for her 'or for anyone you love'"--Container."@en
  • ""In the dock of a British courtroom, French aristocrat Charles Darnay stands accused of spying. The outlook appears grim until some last-minute help comes from the mysterious Sydney Carton. Darnay goes free and makes plans to marry Lucie Manette. Carton keeps his love for her to himself, yet assures her that he would make the ultimate sacrifice for her 'or for anyone you love'"--Container."
  • "During the French Revolution a young Englishman gives up his life to save the husband of the woman he loves."@en
  • "Dissolute lawyer, Sydney Carton, falls passionately in love with the beautiful Lucie Manette. But Lucie loves only her husband, Charles Darnay, who has renounced his hated family name of St Everemonde and with it his connection with the corrupt French aristocracy, to live quietly in London. But the year is 1789, and when Paris erupts in flames as the mob storms the Bastille and overthrows the old order forever, there is a debt of honour that Charles must pay. The Bastille has fallen, but Charles must return to Paris to help an old servant. Inevitably, Charles is arrested and sentenced to die for his family's crimes. All seems lost until Sydney Carton appears. His moment has come, and at last he has the chance to redeem himself, to make up for a wasted life of drunkenness and dissipation in one act of supreme self-sacrifice for the woman he loves."@en
  • "Dissolute lawyer, Sydney Carton, falls passionately in love with the beautiful Lucie Manette. But Lucie loves only her husband, Charles Darnay, who has renounced his hated family name of St Everemonde and with it his connection with the corrupt French aristocracy, to live quietly in London. But the year is 1789, and when Paris erupts in flames as the mob storms the Bastille and overthrows the old order forever, there is a debt of honour that Charles must pay. The Bastille has fallen, but Charles must return to Paris to help an old servant. Inevitably, Charles is arrested and sentenced to die for his family's crimes. All seems lost until Sydney Carton appears. His moment has come, and at last he has the chance to redeem himself, to make up for a wasted life of drunkenness and dissipation in one act of supreme self-sacrifice for the woman he loves."
  • "Set before and during the French Revolution in the two cities of the title, Paris and London, this is the story of a doctor who is wrongly imprisoned by the French for 18 years. He is finally rescued and reunited with his beautiful young daughter who is loved by two men. She marries one of them, and her husband's life is saved by the other."@en
  • "Set during the French Revolution, it is the story of a British lawyer who sacrifices himself to save another from the guillotine."@en
  • "A doctor, unjustly imprisoned in Paris before the French Revolution, is rescued and reunited with his daughter in London. She is loved by two men: she marries one and the other saves her husband from the guillotine."@en
  • "A doctor, unjustly imprisoned in Paris before the French Revolution, is rescued and reunited with his daughter in London. She is loved by two men. She marries one, but her other suitor saves her husband from the guillotine."
  • "Dicken's tale of love, politics, and the aristocracy during the French revolution."@en
  • "Dicken's tale of love, politics, and the aristocracy during the French revolution."
  • "A dramatisation of Charles Dickens' classic plot of eighteeth century intrigue and high passion."@en
  • "A doctor, unjustly imprisoned in Paris before the French Revolution, is rescued and reunited with his daughter in London. She is loved by two men. She marries one. The other saves her husband from the guillotine."@en
  • "In the dock of a British courtroom, French aristocrat Charles Darnay stands accused of spying. The outlook appears grim until some last-minute help comes from the mysterious Sydney Carton. Darnay goes free and makes plans to marry Lucie Manette. Carton keeps his love for her to himself, yet assures her that he would make the ultimate sacrifice for her. As the characters are swept into the maelstrom of the French Revolution, that long-ago promise will become Carton's last hope of redemption for his own soul."@en
  • "A masterful retelling of Charles Dickens' epic novel of love and betrayal during the French Revolution."
  • "In the dock of a British courtroom, French aristocrat Charles Darnay stands accused of spying. The outlook appears grim until some last-minute help comes from the mysterious Sydney Carton. Darnay goes free and makes plans to marry Lucie Manette. Carton keeps his love for her to himself, yet assures her that he would make the ultimate sacrifice for her 'or for anyone you love'."@en
  • "Dickens' tale of love, politics, and the aristocracy during the French Revolution."
  • "Dickens' tale of love, politics, and the aristocracy during the French Revolution."@en
  • "Dicken's tale of love, politics, and the aristocracy during the French Revolution."@en

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  • "Tale of two cities (Television program : 1989)"