Cold Lazarus (1996)
3.9 of 5 from 49 ratings
4h 0min
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- Synopsis:
"Cold Lazarus" is the second of two television dramas written by the acclaimed TV playwright Dennis Potter. Having been diagnosed with terminal cancer and with less than six months to live, Potter undertook a race against mortality to complete two television dramas which were uniquely to be shared between Channel 4 and the BBC. In a televised interview with Melvyn Bragg he said My only regret is if I die four pages too soon. He didn't and the result is a fitting tribute to a life committed to the creation of some of the finest television drama ever written. In a future almost 400 years hence, a group of scientists gather to watch the projected memories of a human brain the cryogenically stored brain of writer Daniel Freed. The memories offer a new kind of reality, a new kind of freedom in a world that is far from free. Brutal rebels whose motto is Reality or Nothing take life indiscriminately and armed retaliation by the state can be no less deadly. Under pressure from rival corporate interests, each threatening to pull the plug at any moment, the scientists fall victim to the tricks that memory can play, picking at threads as they try to comprehend how personal histories are written and can be rewritten. As elements of truth and fiction explosively intertwine, will the mind of Daniel Feeld finally be set free? - Actors:
- Albert Finney, Ciarán Hinds, Frances De La Tour, Grant Masters, Ganiat Kasumu, Carmen Ejogo, Henry Goodman, Saffron Burrows, Diane Ladd, Joe Roberts, Tara Woodward, Rob Brydon, Anna Chancellor, Claudia Malkovich, David Foxxe, James Peck, John Light, Terence Maynard, Guy Masterson, Jonathan Cake
- Studio:
- Acorn Media
- Genres:
- British TV, TV Dramas, TV Sci-Fi & Fantasy, TV Thrillers
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