Cinemystery, your source for information on TV series, made-for-television movies, and films adapted from novels of mystery and suspense, which are now available on DVD or Blu-ray disc, is profiling a mini-series scheduled for release this week.
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Adapted from the novel The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett. Directed by Sergio Mimica-Gezzan.
More adventure than thriller or suspense, this eight-part mini-series is an enduring love story masterfully entwined with political turmoil, set against a backdrop of war, religious strife and power struggles in 12th century England.
Emerging from the war-torn shadows of England's Dark Ages, an idealistic mason, Tom Builder (Rufus Sewell) sets out on a quest of erecting a glorious Cathedral bathed in light. But when that light threatens to illuminate the dark secrets of ambitious Bishop Waleran Bigod (Ian McShane) and the battling progeny of King Henry, Queen Maud (Alison Pill) and King Stephen (Tony Curran), they'll stop at nothing to keep those secrets safe.
The mini-series also stars Matthew Macfadyen as Prior Philip and Donald Sutherland as Earl Bartholomew.
The Pillars of the Earth runs 421 minutes and is Not Rated.
Also available: The Pillars of the Earth (Blu-ray disc).
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