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Dylan: The Life and Death of a Poet (1978) [N/A]

Release Date:
November 9, 1978

Original Title:
Dylan: The Life and Death of a Poet

Genres:
Documentary | Drama | TV Movie

Production Companies:
BBC Cymru Wales

Production Countries:
United Kingdom

Ratings / Certifications:
 N/A

Runtime: 117

Overview from TheMovieDB

A drama documentary of the life and death of the poet Dylan Thomas, who died in New York 25 years ago at age 39. Alcohol and a doctor's injection of morphine were the immediate causes. Ever since his childhood in Wales his life was a spectacular attempt - comic at times, serious below the surface, tragic at the finish - to survive on his own bizarre terms as the poet to end all poets. By the 1950s, that first postwar decade of uneasiness and change, Dylan Thomas was a legend to his admirers but a burnt-out case to himself. As he tours America to read poetry to rapt audiences, his past crowds in on him, the fractured memories of a man at the end of his tether.

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Producer:
Richard Lewis

Writer:
Paul Ferris

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