01 Jan 1969
Katja Mann: A Life with Thomas Mann
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How Proust Can Change Your Life
A docu-drama portrait of the early-20th-century French author Marcel Proust, based on Alain de Botton's updated analysis of his work as a modern-day self-help guide. Ralph Fiennes plays Proust, with Phyllida Law and Donald Sinden as his contemporaries, while commentators including de Botton, Louis de Bernières and Doris Lessing explain their enthusiasm for his work.
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Felicity Kendal The Narrator
Ralph Fiennes Marcel Proust
Phyllida Law Virginia Woolf
Donald Sinden Duc d'Albufera
Phelim Drew James Joyce
Richard Blackford Gabriel de La Rochefoucauld
Lily Bevan Celeste Albaret
Katherine Porter Anna de Noailles
Alain de Botton Self
Pierre Rosenberg Self
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