THE CRIMSON PETAL AND THE WHITE

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• Release Year: 2011
• Genre: Drama, Romance
• Plot: ENTER A VICTORIAN ENGLAND YOU'VE NEVER SEEN: gritty, dark, and unsettling. Based on Michel Faber's international bestseller, this four-part BBC series follows the fortunes of Sugar (Romola Garai, Atonement, Emma), a notorious prostitute who longs for a better life. Sexually adept, ambitious, and clever, she casts a spell on William Rackham (Chris O'Dowd, Bridesmaids, The IT Crowd), feckless heir to a perfume business and husband to a wife slipping slowly into insanity. As their lives intertwine, events are set in motion that will change them forever.
• Cast: Romola Garai, Chris O'Dowd, Amanda Hale, Shirley Henderson, Katie Lyons, Eleanor Yates, Elizabeth Berrington, Richard E. Grant, James Wilson, Clare Louise Connolly, Isla Watt, Tom Georgeson, Liz White, Branwell Donaghey, Blake Ritson, Bertie Carvel, Gillian Anderson, Mark Gatiss, Wendy Nottingham, Alan Williams, Maimie McCoy, Sarah Ridgeway, Izabella Urbanowicz, Lydia Wilson, Ben Bishop, Camilla Rutherford, Alison Pargeter, Rosie Cavaliero, Peter Cellier, Andrew Dunford, Moya Brady, Patrick Brennan, Susan Kyd, Gabrielle Hamilton, Mary Roscoe, Jessica Pyatt, Jack Chissick, Sarah-Jane De Crespigny, Benjayx Murphy, Christian Wolf-La'Moy, Giles Spencer, Ernest Vernon, Marc Munden, Lucinda Coxon, Michel Faber
• Director: Marc Munden
• Runtime: 4:34
• Company: Origin Pictures, Cité-Amérique, Niagara Films, British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), Acorn Media, Fremantle Media
• Media Format: Series