Frankenstein: Birth of a Monster
TV Special
Documentary looking at the origins of Mary Shelley's classic novel, examining how the book drew on scientific developments, radical politics and the author's own turbulent life. Using dramatic reconstructions, the film also explores the importance of the summer the writer spent at Lord Byron's Villa Diodati and recreates the monster as Shelley imagined him, revealing him to be a very different creature from the lumbering beast portrayed by Boris Karloff. Robert Winston narrates
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Cast
- Lucy Davenport as Mary Godwin Shelley
- David Schofield as The Monster
- Oliver Chris as Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Harriet Walter as Mary Wollstonecraft
