Item Details
The constant gardener [videorecording]
Potboiler Productions ; Scion Films Limited ; UK Film Council ; produced by Simon Channing-Williams ; screenplay by Jeffrey Caine ; directed by Fernando Meirelles.
- Format
- DVD; Video
- Summary
- In a remote area of Northern Kenya, activist Tessa Quayle is found brutally murdered. Tessa's companion, a doctor, appears to have fled the scene, and all the evidence points to a crime of passion. Members of the British High Commission in Nairobi assume that Tessa's widower, their mild-mannered and unambitious colleague Justin Quayle, will leave the matter to them. Haunted by remorse and jarred by rumors of his late wife's infidelities, Quayle surprises everyone by embarking on a personal odyssey that will take him across three continents. Using his privileged access to diplomatic secrets, Justin risks his own life and will stop at nothing to expose the truth - a conspiracy more far-reaching and deadly than Quayle could ever have imagined.
- Director
- Fernando Meirelles
- Performer(s)
- Ralph Fiennes, Rachel Weisz, Hubert Koundé, Danny Huston, Daniele Harford, Packson Ngugi, Damaris Itenyo Agweyu, Bernard Otieno Oduor, Bill Nighy.
- Release Date
- 2005
- Run Time
- 129 min.
- Language
- In English with optional soundtrack in French, and with optional English, French or Spanish subtitles.
- Closed-captioned.
- Rating
- MPAA rating: R; for language, some violent images and sexual content/nudity.
- Notes
- Title from container.
- Based on the novel by John Le Carré.
- Videodisc release of a 2005 motion picture.
- Special features: Deleted scenes; extended scene: "Haruma - play in Kibera"; "Embracing Africa:" filming in Kenya; John Le Carre: from page to the screen; "Anatomy of a global thriller:" behind the scenes of 'The constant gardener."
- Edition
- Widescreen ed.
- Series
- Focus Features spotlight series
- Series statement
- Focus Features spotlight series
- Focus Features spotlight series.
- ISBN(s)
- 1417030003,
- Credits
- Director of photography, César Charlone ; editor, Claire Simpson ; music, Alberto Iglesias ; costume designer, Odile Dicks-Mireaux ; production designer, Mark Tildesley.
- Published
- Universal City, CA :Focus Features :Distributed by Universal Studios Home Entertainment,2006.
- Publisher no.
- 26292 Focus Features
- Related resources
- Internet Movie Database Summary and Reviews
- Description
- 1 videodisc (ca. 129 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. DVD, region 1, widescreen (1.85:1) presentation; Dolby Digital 5.1 surround, dual layer, single sided.
- Technical details
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