Daniel Deronda BBC Drama Miniseries 2002 by Beth Freed - Dailymotion

Beth Freed

Set in Victorian London, Gwendolen Harleth is drawn to Daniel Deronda, a selfless and intelligent gentleman of unknown parentage, but her own desperate need for financial security may destroy her chance at happiness.

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00:00I have heard word from your mother, dear.

00:07After all these years, she has decided at last that she wishes to see you.

00:18To my son, Daniel Doronda, my good friend Sir Hugo will have told you that I wish to

00:41see you.

00:42Please come to the Hotel de Inglaterra in Genoa and wait for me there.

00:47I will join you as soon as I can, Contessa Maria Carisi.

00:58My mother is a Contessa.

01:02That and much more.

01:05I always thought she must have been very poor.

01:13Why did she give me up?

01:18She will tell you, dear.

01:21It should come from her.

01:25And my father?

01:30Are you my father?

01:35No.

01:36Perhaps I was wrong, Dan, to undertake what I did, but it was all she would let me do

01:51for her.

01:56She was the love of my life, you see.

02:01The love of your life isn't always the one you marry.

02:11I would have done anything for her, anything.

02:20You understand me?

02:25Perhaps I liked it a little too well, having you to myself.

02:36But if I've caused you any pain, which could have been avoided, I hope you will forgive

02:44me.

02:48No.

02:51You have never caused me any pain.

02:58You have been the best of fathers to me, and you have been the best of sons.

03:44Dear Mr. de Ronda, please come and see me off.

04:13Please come and see me on Wednesday between five and six.

04:17I would be most grateful.

04:20Gwendolyn Grancourt.

04:36Are you not going to the club this afternoon?

04:43It's a bore.

05:07But I suppose I may as well.

05:13I shan't be more than a couple of hours.

05:17Mr. de Ronda, madam.

05:47It is so good of you to come without asking why.

05:58And now you're here, I don't know where to start.

06:02You think I am ignorant, and I am.

06:07So what could I do but appeal to you?

06:10I'm sorry.

06:11I can be of so little use to you.

06:12No, don't say that.

06:13I...

06:18I wanted to tell you I have been trying to be a better person.

06:24To be less selfish.

06:28But I can't change anything.

06:31I hate almost everybody.

06:32I hate myself.

06:37If you knew what my life was like with him.

06:42He seems thoroughly corrupted to you.

06:45Perhaps if he understood how unhappy you are.

06:49Of course he knows I'm unhappy.

06:54He takes pleasure in it.

06:57You deserve better than that.

06:59Do I?

07:01Some people would say I'd got exactly what I deserve.

07:05You should never think that.

07:07Then what can I do?

07:09I'm leaving him, but if I did that I would be alone.

07:12Without friends.

07:13No.

07:15Your true friends would not desert you.

07:18But I know what it's like.

07:22The life of a woman who has left her husband.

07:26I don't think I would be strong enough.

07:31Unless there was someone.

07:35Do you understand?

07:40You must.

07:45If you feel you don't want anything more to do with me then please say so and put me out of my misery.

07:52Will you stand by me?

07:56Help me.

08:03Of course I will.

08:23We can't talk much longer.

08:30Will you come back tomorrow?

08:32I can't.

08:34I'm leaving for Genoa almost at once.

08:38My mother has sent for me.

08:41Your mother?

08:45When you return then...

09:10Goodbye.

09:25Goodbye.

09:40Goodbye.

09:50You're a fool, Gwendolyn.

09:52If you expect anything from that quarter, he's not for you.

10:00We're two of a kind, you and I.

10:03I thought you would have learned that by now.

10:06I've decided to take a little holiday.

10:10The yacht's at Marseilles, ready to sail.

10:14I think I'd better get you away from London for a bit, eh?

10:18But what about our party on the 4th? You know I've engaged Miss Lafferty.

10:21Well, cancel it, of course.

10:23I'll have no argument about this, Gwendolyn.

10:29Gwendolyn?

10:34Very well.

10:36Good.

10:38That's settled.

10:40We shall leave tomorrow.

11:07Goodbye.

11:09Goodbye.

11:11Goodbye.

11:13Goodbye.

11:15Goodbye.

11:17Goodbye.

11:19Goodbye.

11:21Goodbye.

11:23Goodbye.

11:25Goodbye.

11:27Goodbye.

11:29Goodbye.

11:31Goodbye.

11:33Go to the Hotel d'Inglaterra in Genoa and wait for me there.

11:37I will join you as soon as I can.

11:43Signor de Ronda.

11:47Prego.

11:50I am ready to receive you.

12:20Signor de Ronda.

12:50Well.

13:03You are a beautiful creature.

13:07I thought you would be.

13:09Come here.

13:18Yes.

13:20I am your mother.

13:27But of course you can have no love for me.

13:31I have thought of you more than anyone in the world.

13:35I'm not as you thought I would be.

13:38Am I?

13:40No.

13:42I used to think you might be suffering.

13:46I used to wish I could be a comfort to you.

13:49I am suffering.

13:53But not at this moment.

13:57And I didn't send for you to comfort me.

14:00Come, sit down.

14:07Now.

14:10I'm not foolish enough to imagine that you would love a mother who gave you away.

14:16But I chose something better for you than being with me.

14:20I didn't deprive you of anything worth having.

14:24Your love.

14:26Wasn't that worth having?

14:29No.

14:31I didn't have much love to give you.

14:35I didn't want to be hampered with other lives.

14:44I was a singer.

14:46A great singer.

14:48An artist, do you understand?

14:50I didn't want a child.

14:53I was forced into marrying your father.

14:56Forced by my father's wishes and commands.

15:00But it turned out to be the best way of getting some freedom.

15:05I could rule my husband, but I couldn't rule my father, you see.

15:13And I had a right to be free.

15:18I had a right to live the life that was in me.

15:23We all had that right.

15:27And the bondage I hated most, I wanted to keep you from it if I could.

15:34What better could the most loving mother have done?

15:38I released you from the bondage of having been born a Jew.

15:47And I am a Jew.

15:52My father was a Jew, and you are a Jewess.

15:57Yes.

15:59I'm glad of it.

16:03Why do you say that you're glad?

16:06You are an English gentleman, I secured you that.

16:08How could you decide my birthright for me?

16:12I chose for you what I would have chosen for myself.

16:16How could I know that you would love what I hated?

16:22Oh, forgive me, you are not well.

16:24It will pass.

16:28Mother.

16:32Take comfort.

16:36Isn't it possible I could be near you often and comfort you?

16:42No, not possible.

16:48I'm tired now.

16:50Will you come to me again tomorrow?

16:54If you don't hate me too much.

17:04How beautiful!

17:14How beautiful!

17:20I've never seen anything like it.

17:30How beautiful!

17:40I suppose this is all your doing?

17:50I don't know what you're talking about.

17:52This is why you wanted to put in a Genoa.

17:56You knew Doronda would be here.

18:01And what if I did?

18:03Fine.

18:17I thought we might do a bit of small boat sailing for a couple of days.

18:22Something I can manage alone with you at the tiller.

18:25It'll pass the time.

18:27I'd rather not, if you don't mind.

18:30Gwendolyn.

18:34Let us understand each other.

18:38I know very well what all this nonsense means.

18:41What nonsense?

18:43I don't know what you're talking about.

18:55If you suppose I'm going to let you make a fool of me,

18:58just dismiss that notion from your mind.

19:04Let's go then.

19:16Oh, the reasons for one's actions.

19:19Every woman's supposed to be the same.

19:22Or be a monster.

19:24But I never felt quite what I was supposed to feel.

19:29But to give up your own child.

19:33To renounce your own family.

19:35Oh, you couldn't. You're not a woman.

19:37You could never imagine what it is to have a man's force of genius in you

19:42and suffer the slavery of being a girl.

19:44This is all you were wanted for.

19:46A daughter, a wife, a mother.

19:49Something for the man.

19:56Your father was different.

19:59All lovingness and affection.

20:02He died when you were very young.

20:07I was just coming into the height of my fame then.

20:12The name Maria Carisi was spoken everywhere.

20:16Your up America.

20:19When your father died, I resolved I would have no more ties

20:22except ties I could easily free myself from.

20:28Unfortunately, I was sought after by many men.

20:33So Hugo was one of those who wished to marry me.

20:36He was madly in love with me.

20:39One day I asked him,

20:41is there a man in the world capable of doing something for love of me

20:45and expecting nothing in return?

20:47He said, what is it you want done?

20:50I said, take my boy and bring him up as an Englishman

20:56and let him never know anything about his parents.

21:02You were two years old and you were sitting on his foot.

21:07He had owed you, of course.

21:13So that is what I did.

21:16I'm not ashamed that I did it.

21:19It was the better for you.

21:21Was it?

21:23Was it truly?

21:25Then why have you undone the secrecy now?

21:31I think it is this illness and thinking about what is to come.

21:38What do I know of life and death?

21:45And what my father called right.

21:50Maybe laying hold of me, I cannot go into this darkness without satisfying him.

21:58Nor could I, I found, without seeing you again.

22:09So what will you do now?

22:12Make yourself just like your grandfather?

22:15No.

22:20But I do want to identify with our people.

22:22I want to find some task that I can put my whole heart into.

22:28I know.

22:31You're in love with a Jewess, aren't you?

22:37Even if I were, that's beside the point.

22:40I know better.

22:42Yes, you're in love, of course.

22:45She draws you after her as I drew your father after me.

22:51Is she beautiful?

22:57Yes.

23:01She is a singer like you.

23:05I wonder how it would have been if I kept you with me.

23:10I expect you would have turned your heart to the old things against mine and we should have quarreled.

23:16I think my affection might have lasted through our quarreling.

23:20Perhaps.

23:22But I'm not a loving woman, Daniel.

23:26It is a talent to love.

23:29I lacked it.

23:31And I know very well what love makes of men and women.

23:35It is subjection.

23:38I was never willingly subject to any man.

23:42Men have been subject to me.

23:54I'm dying, Daniel.

23:57We shan't see each other again.

24:01If I had my time to live over,

24:05I would do the same.

24:11Can you forgive me?

24:35Oh, my sorrow,

24:45My sighs,

24:57Oh, let me die!

25:09Oh, let me die!

25:18Oh, let me die!

25:36What's happened?

25:38It's the English, milord.

25:40No, no, it's the lady.

25:49Oh, my God.

25:51She's dead.

25:53I think she's dead.

25:55What a tragedy.

25:57Gwendolyn?

25:59Please, please, Susy, make way.

26:01She's dead.

26:13She's moving.

26:15I know this lady.

26:17Bear up to the hotel there.

26:19Make way.

26:20Be careful.

26:35How is she?

26:37She's not injured, but shocked, yes.

26:40Shocked and distressed.

26:42You are Signor de Ronda?

26:44Yes.

26:45Please, go in.

26:46She wants to see you.

27:03You came.

27:08It's done.

27:10He's dead.

27:12Please, please, you must rest.

27:18How much do you know?

27:20Nothing at all.

27:22Except there was a boating accident.

27:25I didn't even know you were coming to Genoa.

27:27A boating accident?

27:30Is that what they are saying?

27:32Yes.

27:34What else?

27:37If I tell you what happened,

27:40you won't say that I ought to tell the world,

27:43that I ought to be disgraced.

27:46I couldn't do it.

27:48I couldn't bear it.

27:50I couldn't have my mother know.

27:53Know what?

27:55If I tell you that I am guilty, a murderess,

27:59would you forsake me?

28:01But it was an accident.

28:03It was an accident.

28:04Please, let me tell you.

28:09His face, Daniel.

28:12His dead face.

28:22When I was a child, I used to fancy sailing away

28:25from the people I didn't like.

28:29And now the opposite had come to me.

28:34Take it.

28:52I was trapped in a boat with him.

28:55And that's what my life had become.

28:58I think I'll smoke a cigar.

29:01You shan't mind.

29:07I began to pray for him to die.

29:10I fancied impossible things.

29:13I was afraid of our being drowned together.

29:16I was afraid to die myself.

29:32Oh!

29:40The rope! Throw the rope!

29:45Throw the rope! Help me!

29:50Help me.

29:58Throw the rope!

30:01Help me!

30:31Help me!

30:55That is what happened.

30:58His face, Daniel.

31:01His dead face.

31:04If he could swim, it must have been that he was seized with crime.

31:08I could have saved him.

31:10You hesitated.

31:12That was all.

31:15That is murder.

31:21And you won't make me tell anyone else.

31:26No.

31:28There's no injury that could be righted in that way.

31:31And you won't hate me for what I've done.

31:34No, I shan't hate you.

31:38And you won't forsake me.

31:41No.

31:44I wanted to tell you.

31:48I wanted you to know me utterly.

31:52I wanted you to know me utterly.

31:55No one else.

32:00Would you recognise me, I wonder, if you met me now?

32:06Would you think that was the girl I saw at the casino?

32:10Yes.

32:13Yes, of course I would.

32:17I shall never forget that moment.

32:21And do you wish that you had never seen me?

32:25Never.

32:36But we've changed since then, though, haven't we?

32:42You and I.

32:50You and I.

33:06Have you seen the paper?

33:09Manager Grancourt's dead.

33:11Drowned. Boating accident at Genoa.

33:14Well, that's terrible.

33:16Well, I doubt he'll be much missed.

33:18And certainly not by our friend Dan or his duchess.

33:21They'll be free to marry now.

33:29What's the matter?

33:31How can you speak like that?

33:34So callously.

33:36The poor man is dead.

33:39Who are you to say how people feel?

33:49SHE SIGHS

33:54Come on, Tom.

34:09Daniel!

34:11Mira's gone.

34:13Gone?

34:15Do you mean gone where?

34:17I don't know. Welcome home, Dan.

34:23She said she couldn't bear it.

34:26To see Han suffering all the pain of love when she couldn't return it.

34:33I think she was upset about something else, too.

34:36What?

34:38I think you know, Dan.

34:42I think I know where to find her.

34:47Avoiding me, Dan?

35:04Don't ever try and shift a bout of melancholy with three pipes of opium.

35:11Doesn't work.

35:13I'm sorry, Hand.

35:15Yeah, so you're down where I should be.

35:19I've dreamt of nothing but Mira since the first day that I met her.

35:24I gladly have converted for her.

35:29But it's no good.

35:31It's all right for you.

35:33You've got your duchess.

35:35Hands, you don't understand.

35:37Oh, I do.

35:39I've seen you with her.

35:42And I've seen you with Mira.

35:47You've deceived us all.

35:49Hans, that's ridiculous. Look...

35:51I'm in no mood for games, Dan.

35:55I can't bring myself to tell you what you don't seem to know.

35:59What?

36:02That Mira's jealous of the duchess.

36:05The duchess?

36:09Why do you think that is?

36:16Because she's in love with you.

36:24I'll get them, Dan.

36:27Mr. de Ronda, sir.

36:29I was just wondering how I could get word to you and here you are.

36:32How did you know you should come?

36:34I don't understand. I've just returned from Italy.

36:37I thought I might find Miss Lapidoff here.

36:40You have a leg. Mordecai's very ill, sir.

36:56Mordecai.

37:04Mordecai.

37:17I came to tell you...

37:20you were right.

37:22You knew me better than I knew myself.

37:25I am a Jew.

37:28We have the same people.

37:31I knew it.

37:37Don't be sad.

37:40I am happy to die.

37:43Now we shan't be separated by life or by death.

37:48And you will do what I dreamt of doing.

38:01Shabbat shalom.

38:25It seems so hard, Daniel...

38:28that I've only just found him again.

38:32And now he's...

38:33Mira.

38:36Let me share this sorrow.

38:42Let me share all your sorrows...

38:45and all your joys.

38:50I can speak freely now, at last.

38:54Now I know who I am.

38:58I love you, Mira.

39:02Say it.

39:03Say you will promise to be my wife.

39:09Say it now.

39:14You mean it.

39:17Truly.

39:22It's me that you want.

39:24I have spent my life in doubt and confusion.

39:29But now I realize...

39:32it was always your voice that I heard.

39:38Could you love me, Mira?

39:55Sir Hugo said to tell you he's in the library, sir.

40:07So...

40:09now you know your mother.

40:12Yes.

40:14How was she?

40:17I don't know.

40:20Yes.

40:22How was she?

40:24How did she seem to you?

40:28She told me she was dying.

40:32But at the same time, she seemed more alive...

40:36more powerfully present than anyone I've ever known.

40:41Yes.

40:44That was how she always seemed to me.

40:50She...

40:58Extraordinary business, the accident.

41:01I could hardly believe my ears.

41:04I never had much time for Grand Court, but I wouldn't have wished that end for him.

41:09No.

41:11But I suppose it leaves your way free to Mrs. Grand Court now, if you care to take it.

41:17I don't.

41:20I've asked Miss Lapidot to marry me.

41:25Blood devil you have.

41:27Is this some sort of perverse response to what you've learned from your mother?

41:32No, sir. It's something that's been growing inside me for some time.

41:36But what I learned from my mother confirmed me...

41:39not only in who I am...

41:42a Jew...

41:43and proud to be a Jew...

41:45but what I should do with my life...

41:47work for my people...

41:51in the best way I can find.

41:55So...

41:58all my efforts have been in vain.

42:01No.

42:04You have given me the best upbringing and education for my new life.

42:08You told me yourself you wanted me to aim high...

42:11that I had it in me to succeed.

42:13You told me to aim high...

42:15that I had it in me to be a leader of men.

42:17And now I believe that I could be that leader.

42:22At least I want to try.

42:26And I should like to have your blessing for that work.

42:31And for my marriage, too.

42:34I can't pretend that I'm happy about this, Daniel.

42:46Mr. De Ronda, sir!

42:50I told him. He...

42:54Daniel...

42:58Daniel...

43:00Daniel...

43:08He's gone.

43:29Daniel...

43:45I wanted to see you...

43:48to know that you are well...

43:50or recovering.

43:52I am better, yes.

43:56And...

43:58your material circumstances now?

44:00Do you have need of anything?

44:02No.

44:03My husband left me a small amount.

44:07Quite enough to support us here at Offendean.

44:12I want for nothing else.

44:17I have been trying to be a better daughter...

44:20a better sister.

44:24You were right.

44:26It does help to try to put others before oneself.

44:31Rather a novelty for me.

44:38My life has changed, too.

44:41Changed... utterly.

44:45I have found my true family.

44:49I am a Jew.

44:52But what difference should that make to you and me?

44:57I must tell you that I am going to marry Miss Lapidot.

45:06I hope...

45:11I hope you will be very happy.

45:16Happier than I have been.

45:22I always thought I was the best of gamblers.

45:25But now it seems I have lost in every way.

45:32So what will you do now...

45:35with your life?

45:38I want to travel to the East...

45:41and find out more about my people...

45:43and see if I can help them.

45:46So I am forsaken.

45:49I said I should be... and I am.

45:57You know...

46:00all my life I thought the world revolved around my hopes...

46:05my desires.

46:08Now I know the world goes on without me and my hopes...

46:11my desires mean nothing.

46:13No, don't say that.

46:15Don't be afraid.

46:18I mean to live.

46:21I am young after all and not all bad.

46:28I shall be better for having known you.

46:35Go now.

46:48Go.

47:18THE END

47:48Go.

48:06Dear Daniel...

48:09Don't think of me sorrowfully wherever you may go.

48:13You must live out the life that is in you...

48:16and I must live out my own.

48:21I shall remember your words...

48:23every one of them.

48:26I shall remember what you believe about me...

48:29that I am worth something after all.

48:33You have known me more deeply and cared more for me than anyone...

48:37and I only thought of myself...

48:39and made you grieve.

48:42You mustn't grieve any more for me.

48:46It is better.

48:49It shall be better with me because I have known you...

48:53Gwendolyn Grandcourt.

49:16THE END

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