The Last Days of Jack Sheppard

The Last Days of Jack Sheppard

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jan 1, 2009

Runtime

0h 56m

Genres

Drama

Original Title

The Last Days of Jack Sheppard

Production Companies

Chisenhale Gallery London, CCA Glasgow, The Henry Moore Foundation, Arts Council of England, The Scottish Arts Council

Director

Anja Kirschner

Description

Set in the wake of Britain’s first financial crisis, the South Sea Bubble of 1720, and based on the inferred prison encounters between the thief Jack Sheppard and the writer Daniel Defoe, this critical costume drama traces connections between fiction, speculation and aesthetics.