StudioCanal have sent us a new trailer for the recent 4K restoration of director John Schlesinger's Far from the Madding Crowd (1967), starring Julie Christie, Peter Finch, Alan Bates, and Terence Stamp. The new restoration will be introduced in theaters across the UK tomorrow, March 13. It will also be released on Blu-ray on June 1.
Headstrong and passionate Bathsheba Everdene (Julie Christie) unexpectedly inherits a large farm in rural Dorset. Struggling to manage the farm herself, she captivates the hearts and minds of three very different men: an honest and hardworking sheep farmer (Alan Bates), a wealthy but tortured landowner (Peter Finch), and a reckless and violent swordsman (Terence Stamp). But as emotions become entangled, free spirited and innocent folly soon leads to devastating tragedy.
The restoration process of Far From the Madding Crowd was overseen by the film's cinematographer and acclaimed director, Nicolas Roeg (Don't Look Now). The Digital Film restoration was funded by StudioCanal in collaboration with the BFI's Unlocking Film Heritage programme, Awarding funds from the National Lottery.
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