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[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2018
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1 online resource (streaming video file) (58 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
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Set in 18th Century Italy, RAPPACCINI'S DAUGHTER is the tale of a young scholar named Giovanni who falls in love with a beautiful, yet forbidden, girl who tends her father's poison garden. However, the strange and unearthly beauty of Beatrice masks a terrifying curse which Giovanni must tragically discover. Her father, the mysterious Dr. Rappaccini, has made her the subject of a diabolical experiment. In Giovanni's attempt to free Beatrice from the control of her father and to escape the poisonous effect she begins to have on him, he unwittingly destroys her. From the short story of master American novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne, two quintessential Hawthorne themes are explored: the sins of interfering with another's soul and the futility of trying to tamper with nature
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Kathleen Beller, Kristoffer Tabori
Originally produced by Monterey Media, Inc. in 1960
Mode of access: World Wide Web
In English