The Black Pimpernel The Black Pimpernel The Black Pimpernel (; ) is a Swedish drama film directed by Ulf Hultberg and starring Michael Nyqvist and Lisa Werlinder. The film also features Kate Del Castillo, Luis Gnecco and Claire Ross-Brown in a minor part. The film is about Harald Edelstam, Sweden’s ambassador to Chile, who after the military coup of Augusto Pinochet in 1973, managed to save the lives of more than 1,300 people by taking them to his embassy and transporting them to Sweden. His name comes from the fictional hero The Scarlet Pimpernel who saved many lives during the French Revolution. The
The Scarlet Letter (1995 film) 2011 to name the few films in his catalogue that he would take to a desert island, Oldman named "The Scarlet Letter" among his four choices. He conceded Travers's assertion that the film was "hammered" by reviewers, but argued, "There's some good work in there." The Scarlet Letter (1995 film) The Scarlet Letter is a 1995 American romantic drama film. It is a film adaptation of the Nathaniel Hawthorne novel of the same name. It was directed by Roland Joffé and stars Demi Moore, Gary Oldman, and Robert Duvall. This version was "freely adapted" from Hawthorne and deviated from the