Key Details
Release StatusReleased
Release Date2006-10-09
Languageen
Runtime1h 24m
Budget$1,500,000
Production
BBC Cymru Wales, Kudos
5.6(15)
•2006•1h 24mWide Sargasso Sea
"Wide Sargasso Sea, Jean Rhys' steamy prequel to Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre"
Overview
Dramatisation of Jean Rhys's novel set in 19th-century Jamaica. The tragic story of the first Mrs Rochester from Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre centres on an arranged marriage between a white Creole heiress and a brooding Englishman, who fall in love only to be torn apart by rumours, paranoia and a cultural divide.
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