Nostromo (TV series)

Nostromo
Directed byAlastair Reid
StarringClaudio Amendola
Colin Firth
Albert Finney
Claudia Cardinale
ComposerEnnio Morricone
Country of originUnited Kingdom
No. of series1
No. of episodes4
Production
ProducerFernando Ghia
CinematographyFranco Di Giacomo
Running time55 minutes
Original release
NetworkBBC
Release5 January 1997 (1997-01-05)
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Nostromo is a 1997 British-Italian television drama series directed by Alastair Reid and produced by Fernando Ghia of Pixit Productions, a co-production with Radiotelevisione Italiana, Televisión Española, and WGBH Boston. The music is composed by Ennio Morricone. It stars Claudio Amendola, Paul Brooke, Lothaire Bluteau, Claudia Cardinale, Colin Firth and Albert Finney.[1] It is described as "an adaptation of Joseph Conrad's epic story Nostromo of political upheaval, greed and romance in turn-of-the-20th-century South America."[2]

  1. ^ Moore, Gene M. (1997). Conrad on Film. Cambridge University Press. p. 249. ISBN 978-0-521-55448-0.
  2. ^ "Fernando Ghia, 69; Italian Film, TV Producer Known Best for 'Mission'". Los Angeles Times. 11 June 2005. Retrieved 3 February 2014.