To Walk Invisible
| To Walk Invisible | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Drama |
| Written by | Sally Wainwright |
| Directed by | Sally Wainwright |
| Starring |
Finn Atkins Rebecca Callard Charlie Murphy Adam Nagaitis Chloe Pirrie Jonathan Pryce Troy Tipple |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of series | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 1 |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) | Faith Penhale Sally Wainwright |
| Producer(s) | Karen Lewis |
| Running time | 120 minutes |
| Production company(s) |
BBC Cymru Wales Lookout Point The Open University |
| Release | |
| Original release | 29 December 2016 |
To Walk Invisible is a British television film about the Brontë family that aired on BBC One on 29 December 2016. The drama was written and directed by Sally Wainwright and focused on the relationship of the three Brontë sisters; Charlotte, Emily and Anne, and their brother, Branwell.
In the United States, it aired March 26th, 2017 on PBS as part of Masterpiece Theater, under the title: "To Walk Invisible: The Bronte Sisters."
The plot revolves around the true life setting of the Brontë family in 1840s Haworth, West Yorkshire, which was their home. In particular, attention is drawn to the relationship between the three sisters and Branwell (their brother) in the last three years of his life. After a doomed love affair, he sinks into alcoholism and drug addiction.
The title of the drama comes from a letter that Charlotte Brontë had written to her publisher about once meeting a clergyman who did not realise that she was Currer Bell. It suited her and her sisters that they were not famous; "What author would be without the advantage of being able to walk invisible?"
The drama was filmed mostly in Yorkshire with Haworth being used extensively during filming. A replica of the Parsonage at Haworth was constructed on the moorland in Penistone Hill Country Park, just west of Haworth. This allowed external scenes to be filmed away from the real Parsonage in the village. The replica parsonage was also added to with other buildings and a street to make a small set of how Haworth looked at the time of the Brontës, with at least one local councillor pointing out that in their time, the Parsonage was not shaded by trees as it is now.
Interior scenes were filmed in studios at Manchester as filming in the actual Parsonage itself was not possible. Other external scenes were filmed within the city of York and the Calder Valley in West Yorkshire.
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