Rent Rudyard Kipling: A Secret Life (2020)
2.8 of 5 from 6 ratings
0h 50min
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- Synopsis:
The film interweaves linked themes: an analysis of the life of Rudyard Kipling; the story of Rudyard Kipling's devastation at the deaths of two of his three children; and the three short stories Kipling wrote around these deaths - 'They', 'Mary Postgate' and 'The Gardener', all deeply moving, dark and sometimes violent. In 1904 Kipling and his six-year-old daughter Josephine had simultaneously fallen gravely ill on a trip to the US. The illness spared Kipling but killed Josephine. He never got over her death. She was a child of enormous beauty and grace. With her death Kipling lost part of himself. In 1915 John Kipling was killed at the Battle of Loos in what was an agonising death. With the death of John, Kipling had now lost two of his three children. Their deaths provoke both the utter desolation which will consume and kill this great writer and give birth to the elegiac passages of 'They' and the chillingly prophetic 'Mary Postgale', two of the short stories which lie at the heart of this film. In Kipling's bedroom at his house Batemans to this day are his son's cricket bat and his daughter's portrait. - Actors:
- Professor Harry Ricketts, Andrew Lycett, Professor Jan Montefiore, Rudyard Kipling, Josephine Kipling, John Kipling
- Directors:
- Adrian Munsey, Vance Goodwin
- Producers:
- Adrian Munsey, Vance Goodwin
- Narrated By:
- Nicholas Farrell
- Writers:
- Adrian Munsey, Vance Goodwin
- Studio:
- Odyssey Video
- Genres:
- Children & Family, Documentary, Special Interest
