The Turn of the Screw

The Turn of the Screw (1982)

January 1st, 19821h 56min

Music
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Overview

Benjamin Britten’s opera of the Henry James novel. An inexperienced governess is sent to a country house to care for two children, whom she is gradually convinced have been corrupted by the ghosts of a previous manservant and governess…


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