MASTERPIECE THEATRE: NOTORIOUS WOMAN: THE STORY OF GEORGE SAND, EPISODE 6: SONATA (TV)
Summary
One in this ongoing series of dramas presented under the title of "Masterpiece Theatre," hosted by Alistair Cooke. The sixth of seven episodes dramatizing the life of author George Sand. In this episode, George Sand's personal life again falls into turmoil as she breaks from Chopin and her daughter Solange. Sand finds a measure of peace and contentment with Chopin and her children back at her country estate in France. As the children grow, however, tension mounts when Solange manifests her grandmother's willful licentiousness, while Maurice's burgeoning social conscience clashes with Chopin's tendency toward elitism. Marie Dorval visits her old friend Sand and suffers a hysterical breakdown, since she is broke and unable to find acting work. But Sand pledges to support her friend. The strained civility between Maurice and Chopin shatters during a violent argument over the revolution fomenting in France, and Chopin retreats from the estate in a devastating torrent of insults and resentment, leaving Sand heartbroken. Solange and her mother clash repeatedly over Solange's behavior with boys. And ironically, Sand and her estranged husband, Casimir, become friends and comisserate about their daughter's incorrigibility. Out of sheer spite and perversity, Solange marries Clesinger, a crude, arrogant sculptor who immediately squanders her dowry. The newlyweds have a wretched altercation in Sand's house, culminating with Clesinger's lewd proposition to Sand. Maurice forces the man to apologize at gunpoint, and Sand banishes the couple from her home and her life forever.
Cataloging of this program was made possible by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, 1997.
Details
- NETWORK: PBS WGBH Boston, MA
- DATE: December 21, 1975 Sunday 9:00 PM
- RUNNING TIME: 0:59:04
- COLOR/B&W: Color
- CATALOG ID: T:48309
- GENRE: Drama
- SUBJECT HEADING: Authors - Drama
- SERIES RUN: PBS - TV series, 1971-
- COMMERCIALS: N/A
CREDITS
- Pieter Rogers … Producer
- Waris Hussein … Director
- Harry J. Junkin … Writer
- Anthony Isaac … Music by
- Ilan Rogoff … Instrumentalist, Pianist
- Alistair Cooke … Host
- Rosemary Harris … Cast, George Sand
- George Chakiris … Cast, Frederic Chopin
- Lewis Fiander … Cast, Casimir Dudevant
- Brian Blessed … Cast, Albert Grzymala
- Graham Faulkner … Cast, Maurice
- Sinead Cusack … Cast, Marie Dorval
- Tom Chadbon … Cast, Clesinger
- Kathleen Byron … Cast, Jane Stirling
- Jean Rimmer … Cast, Louise Jedrzejevicz
- John Sommerville … Cast, Fernand de Preaulx
- Marina McConnell … Cast, Ursule Josse
- Nicholas Field … Cast, Victor Borie