PBS DISTRIBUTION
TO RELEASE
“THE MINIATURIST,”
A GORGEOUSLY
FILMED ADAPTATION OF JESSIE BURTON’S HAUNTING BESTSELLING NOVEL
Available on Digital September 10
and DVD and Blu-ray September 18
Premieres on Masterpiece Sunday,
September 9 (Check Local Listings)
Arlington, Va. – September 6, 2018 – PBS Distribution announced today it is releasing “MASTERPIECE:
THE MINIATURIST” on Digital September
10 and DVD and Blu-ray September 18.
Golden Age Amsterdam comes alive in all its opulence and repressed
sensuality in an adaptation of Jessie Burton’s bestselling novel The Miniaturist, starring Anya
Taylor-Joy (“Split,” “The Witch”), Romola Garai (“Churchill’s Secret,” “The
Hour”), and Alex Hassell (“Suburbicon,” “Anonymous”). Taylor-Joy plays a young
bride who receives mysterious packages from a reclusive maker of
miniatures—tiny objects that appear to predict the future. “THE
MINIATURIST” also features Paapa Essiedu (“A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” “Utopia”),
Hayley Squires (“I, Daniel Blake;” “Call the Midwife”) and Emily Berrington (“Humans,”
“The Inbetweeners 2”).
Critics were captivated when the miniseries
recently aired in the UK. The Telegraph
(London) applauded it as “an evocative, spellbinding drama big on atmosphere,”
and in another review compared the production to “a Daphne Du Maurier potboiler
as painted by Vermeer.” The Guardian
(London) praised THE MINIATURIST as
“mesmerizing.”
“MASTERPIECE:
THE MINIATURIST” will be available for digital download on September 10 and on DVD and Blu-ray ($24.99, $29.99 SRP) September 18, 2018. The run time of the
program is approximately 162 minutes.
Set in
1686 Amsterdam, “THE MINIATURIST” follows Nella (Taylor-Joy), a naive
eighteen-year-old from a bankrupt aristocratic family in the provinces. She is
wooed by Johannes Brandt (Hassell), a handsome and prosperous merchant looking
for a wife. Once wed, Nella lives in Johannes’ mansion, mostly without him,
kept in the care of his grim and overbearing sister, Marin (Garai), and the
household’s two controlling servants.
As a
wedding gift, Johannes gives Nella an exquisitely crafted cutaway model of the
very house she is living in now, as a married woman. He instructs her to furnish
it to her liking and gives her the address to the miniaturist who creates the
tiny objects. She and the miniaturist only communicate by letter and upon her
first order, she receives more objects than she requests. Without direction
from Nella, the miniaturist keeps sending new creations including dolls
replicating Johannes, Marin and the servants, with details that hint at closely
held secrets.
Amsterdam
is a city full of secrets, which Nella proceeds to unlock thanks to clues from
her unseen artisan. In a community where authorities regard sugar as sinful,
gingerbread men as idolatrous, and certain sexual behaviors as grounds for
execution, secrecy can be a life-or-death matter.
About MASTERPIECE
Winner of 86 Primetime Emmys® and 16
Peabody Awards, MASTERPIECE has been essential Sunday night viewing for
millions of fans since 1971. Rebecca Eaton is the executive producer of the
series. Funding for MASTERPIECE is provided by Viking and Farmers Insurance®
with additional support from public television viewers and contributors to The
MASTERPIECE Trust. Presented on PBS by WGBH Boston, MASTERPIECE is known for
recent hits such as Sherlock, Downton Abbey and Victoria, and beloved classics such as Upstairs Downstairs, Prime
Suspect, The Forsyte Saga and Poldark.
About
PBS Distribution
PBS
Distribution is the leading distributor of public media
content around the world, reaching audiences through multiple platforms
including digital distribution of OTT branded channels, TVOD, SVOD and VOD, as
well as through theatrical licensing, DVD and Blu-ray sales, inflight
entertainment and international licensing.
PBS Distribution offers consumers and educators
over 4,000 programming hours of the highest quality factual, scripted and
children’s programming, including films from producer Ken Burns, hit dramas
from MASTERPIECE, entertaining and educational children’s series and
award-winning documentaries from NOVA, FRONTLINE, AMERICAN MASTERS, NATURE,
AMERICAN EXPERIENCE and many independent producers. For over 20 years, the
company has extended the reach of programming beyond broadcast while generating
revenue for the public television system, stations and producers.
THE MINIATURIST
Street Date: September
18, 2018
Genre:
Drama
Run Time: Approximately
162 Minutes on 1 Disc
SRP: DVD, $24.99,
Blu-ray, $29.99
Format:
DVD, Blu-ray & Digital
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