Grade Level: SrH-Adult
Producer: BBC
Closed Captioned: No |
Running Time: 50 mins
Country of Origin: Great Britain
Study Guide: No |
Copyright Date: 1996
Available in French: No
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A Farewell to Arms, For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Old Man and the Sea. These titles immediately bring to mind the adventurous life of their Nobel and Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Ernest Hemingway. This program explores his life and literary psyche through the eyes of those who knew him. As the program progresses, the many identities of Hemingway are revealed: husband, journalist, World War I ambulance driver, Spanish freedom fighter, African big game hunter, and Paris literary expatriate. Hemingway's fascination with bullfighting is examined as a fixation with death. His final days in Cuba and tragic suicide in the 1960s conclude the program. |