Title:
Victory
Released: 1995
Genre: Drama
Runtime: 99 min
Country: UK /
France / Germany
Language: English
Plot
Summary: Axel Heyst lives on a secluded
island near the Dutch East Indies port of Surabaya.
The year is 1913. While on personal business to the
port, he visits the hotel owned by racist German Schomberg.
An all-woman orchestra plays in the hotel each night,
and orchestra owner, San Giacomo agrees to "sell"
one of the girls, Alma, to Schomberg. She asks Heyst
to save her from the villains and they escape to his
island and live there with native servant Wang. Schomberg
points sinister Mr. Jones and his two fellow bandits
to that island, saying that the fortune lies ahead
of them there.
Comments:
Victory
is storytelling at its finest and a seriously good
screen adaptation of a great Joseph Conrad story,
one of the best storytellers of modern times. Excellent
performances by Willem Dafoe, Sam Neill, Irene Jacob,
and Rufus Sewell but here the success of this film
is the story itself and a director who understands
and respects the material. No one could build a tale
around a personality flaw better than Conrad and the
characters he created are wonderfully mysterious and
perplexing and a delight to meet in print or on screen.
Cast
overview:
Willem Dafoe .... Axel Heyst
Sam Neill .... Mr. Jones
Irène Jacob .... Alma
Rufus Sewell .... Martin Ricardo
Jean Yanne .... Mr. Schomberg
Ho Yi .... Wang
Bill Paterson .... Capt. Davidson
Irm Hermann .... Mrs. Schomberg
Graziano Marcelli .... Pedro
Hansi Jochmann .... Mrs. Zangiacomo
Simon Callow .... Zangiacomo
Michael Lee .... Chinese Gentleman
Leonard Maguire .... Old Trader McNab
Didi Saad .... Wang's Wife
Topan Setiadji .... Young Chinese Houseboy
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