Howards End
(1992)
★ 7 IMDb · 609 votes
Year: 1992
Runtime: 140 мин
Country: United Kingdom, Japan
Director: Джеймс Айвори
Cast: Эмма Томпсон, Хелена Бонем Картер, Энтони Хопкинс, Сэмюэл Уэст, Ванесса Редгрейв, Adrian Ross Magenty, Прунелла Скейлс, Джеймс Уилби, Joseph Bennett, Jo Kendall
Plot
A saga of class relations and changing times in an Edwardian England on the brink of modernity, the film centers on liberal Margaret Schlegel, who, along with her sister Helen, becomes involved with two couples: wealthy, conservative industrialist Henry Wilcox and his wife Ruth, and the downwardly mobile working-class Leonard Bast and his mistress Jackie.
Encounter of three social classes of England at the beginning of the twentieth century: the Victorian capitalists (the Wilcoxes) considering themselves as aristocrats, whose only god is money; the enlightened bourgeois (the Schlegels), humanistic and philanthropic; and the workers (the Basts), fighting to survive. The Schlegel sisters' humanism will be torn apart as they try both to softly knock down the Wilcox's prejudices and to help the Basts.