The Drunkard's Lament

Release Date: 2018-04-12

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

as Cathy Linton

Linda Montano

as Hindley Earnshaw

Murray Gordon

as Heathcliff

Nandini Khaund

as The Widow

Paul Tarragó

as Branwell Brontë (voice)