The Rainbow (BBC miniseries)

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The Rainbow
Directed by Stuart Burge
Produced byChris Parr
Written by D. H. Lawrence
Anne Devlin
Starring Imogen Stubbs
Martin Wenner
Kate Buffery
Music by Simon Rogers
CinematographyJohn Kenway
Edited byJohn Rosser
Distributed by BBC
Release date
1988
Running time
180 minutes
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish

The Rainbow is a BBC 3 episode miniseries of 1988 directed by Stuart Burge, adapted from the D. H. Lawrence novel The Rainbow (1915).

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Ursula Brangwen is the eldest child of Will Brangwen, a farmer, and his wife Anna. She has a fascination with rainbows and one day she runs away from home looking for the pot of gold at the end of one.

As a teenager, Ursula has a crush on Winifred Inger, her gym mistress at the girls' high school, and she also has romantic feelings for Anton Skrebensky, who is at the boys' high school. They spend a lot of time together, including hill walking. Ursula agrees to become a nude model for a local artist, but she walks out after he makes a pass at her. She is jealous when Winifred gets engaged to her Uncle Henry. Ursula and Anton leave school. He joins the army and goes to fight in the Second Boer War, while she moves to London and gets a job as a schoolteacher at an elementary school in the East End of London, where she has to fend off unwanted advances from the headmaster of the school.

A year later, in the spring of 1901, Ursula returns to the farm and meets Anton, just home from the war, and they begin an affair. Ursula also starts to work for the Derbyshire miners union. When she thinks she is pregnant, Anton wants to marry her, but she turns him down, and he goes away. After fighting off an attempted rape by two miners, Ursula gets a telegram from Anton to say he has married someone else and has been posted to British India.

During a rainstorm, a rainbow appears, and Ursula packs a suitcase and again runs away from home, chasing the rainbow.

Her story is continued in D. H. Lawrence's novel Women in Love .

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