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The idea of using 19th-century fabulist Hans Christian Andersen's stories as a way to investigate his emotionally turbulent life is provocative, but screenwriter Kit Hesketh Harvey and director Philip Saville fail to exploit its potential. Young Hans (Kieran Bew), the son of a chronically ill shoemaker and a slatternly laundress (Geraldine James) who works at an asylum, brightened his bleak childhood by making up and acting out fanciful tales. When his father dies, naive Han... read more leave a comment
Year: 2002
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Cast
Kieran Bew: Hans Christian Andersen
James Fox: Jonas Collin
Emma Hamilton: Jette Collin
Flora Montgomery: Jenny Lind
Geraldine James: Hans's Mother
Simon Callow: Charles Dickens

 

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