A Tale of Two Cities (1958 film)
A Tale of Two Cities is a 1958 British film directed by Ralph Thomas and starring Dirk Bogarde and Dorothy Tutin. It is a period drama based on parts of Charles Dickens' novel A Tale of Two Cities (1859).
Original UK cinema poster
Sir Dirk Bogarde was an English actor, novelist and screenwriter. Initially a matinée idol in films such as Doctor in the House (1954) for the Rank Organisation, he later acted in art house films, evolving from "heartthrob to icon of edginess".
Publicity portrait, 1964
Women survivors in Bergen-Belsen collecting their bread ration after their liberation, April 1945
A British Army bulldozer pushes bodies into a mass grave at Belsen. April 19, 1945
Bogarde with Jane Birkin, co-star in Daddy Nostalgie at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival