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The Fool is a British film of genre Drama with Derek Jacobi

The Fool (1990)

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Length 2h20
Genres Drama
Rating60% 3.0499753.0499753.0499753.0499753.049975

The Fool is a 1990 British film, produced and directed by Christine Edzard from a script by Edzard and Olivier Stockman.

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The narrative is grounded in the double life of a humble clerk who poses as the reclusive, but widely respected "Sir John." He thus moves in wealthy upper class circles and participates in grand investment schemes while living in a London slum. The movie's grand-eloquent socialist soliliquaies and detailed evocation of life in Victorian London drew on the vast personal archive of interviews about contemporary London life by Henry Mayhew.

Actors

Derek Jacobi

(Mr. Frederick / Sir John)
Miranda Richardson
Cyril Cusack

(The Ballad Seller)
Maria Aitken

(Lady Amelia)
Irina Brook

(Georgiana Shillibeer)
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