FILM REVIEW - A Noble Intention

Description:
PUBLIC WORKS – based on Thomas Rosenboom’s best-selling novel – is an epic historical drama about the cousins’ Vedder and Anijs struggle to move up in life. The film tells the tragicomic story of two bourgeois men, who at the end of the 19th century, the time of burgeoning class consciousness, wish to rise above their station, but whose wings are scorched and come hurtling down to earth. The story is told against the backdrop of major social changes caused by the industrial revolution.

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