Amy Dorrit spends her days earning money for the family and looking after her proud father who is a long term inmate of Marshalsea debtors' prison in London. Amy and her family's world is transformed when her employer's son, Arthur Clennam, returns from overseas to solve his family's mysterious legacy and discovers that their lives are interlinked.
Production
Hand-built Marshalsea sets you can practically smell.
Acting
Derek Jacobi's crumbling guilt is masterclass material.
Costume
Edzard's fabric textures tell class stories silently.
Director
Christine Edzard
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Edzard built the Marshalsea set in a literal warehouse, using only materials available in 1820s London — down to the nails.
Released the same year as 'Dirty Dancing,' this six-hour Dickens adaptation was deliberately anti-blockbuster — artisan cinema as political statement against Thatcher-era economics.
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