The Drunkard's Lament

Overview

A strange, epistolary and revisionist musical adaptation of Wuthering Heights written by the consumptive brother Branwell Brontë. When Branwell - the ne'er-do-well, tubercular brother of the Brontë sisters - discovered that Emily was writing her first novel, he offered to be her editor. Once he realized that he was the model for the alcoholic Hindley Earnshaw character, he reimagined the story as a musical memoir of his own life with Hindley as the hero. Reconstructed from Branwell's letters to his friend Francis Leyland along with notes, sheet music and damaged film fragments - this 1898 film originally premiered on the 50th anniversary of the consumption deaths of Branwell and Emily Brontë.

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Cast

Isabella Pinheiro

Cathy Linton

Linda Montano

Hindley Earnshaw

Murray Gordon

Heathcliff

Nandini Khaund

The Widow

Paul Tarragó

Branwell Brontë (voice)

Sally Timms

Singer (voice)

Cosmina Mazza Finn

Franz Mazza Finn

Linton Heathcliff

Cat Mazza

Jim Finn