Role: Lucia
Genre: Drama , Romance , Western
Director: Michael Winterbottom
Written by: Thomas Hardy
Running time: 120 min
Budget: $20,000,000
Release Date: December 29, 2000
Additional Cast: Wes Bentley, Peter Mullan
Synopsis
Female version of Thomas Hardy’s 1886 novel The Mayor of Casterbridge: an epic love story set in California in the 1850s. A man sells his wife and daughter to the devil for the claim to a gold mine, only to be haunted by them 20 years later when he is rich beyond his wildest dreams.
Production
Primary filming took place at the Fortress Mountain ski resort in Kananaskis Country, Alberta, Canada. Near the end of the film, in a scene where the character of Dillon is standing in the street and throws an oil can onto a burning building, you can see the tower, cables and chairs of a modern ski lift in the background. The decision to have the film’s dramatic burning of the entire town of Kingdom Come also served as a first step to fulfill the producer’s commitment to return the site to its original natural condition.Some secondary filming took place in Colorado.
The town that Lucia creates in the valley below Kingdom Come is not to be confused with the real town of Lisbon, California (now the unincorporated community of Arcade), located on the route of the Sacramento Northern Railway which started operation in 1918.
Soundtracks for The Claim “Menina E Moca” , “Menina E Moca”
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