MAH Auditorium
2005, 130MIN
Speaker: Maria Manuel Velasquez, senior technician at the Museum of Angra do Heroísmo
Oliver Twist is one of many orphans suffering from hunger and slave labour in Victorian England. The story is set in the middle of the 19th century and Oliver Twist survives miserably in a workhouse in England until he is handed over to the owner of a funeral parlour, who mistreats him. After a disagreement with a house servant, Oliver runs away and goes to London, where Artful Dodger, one of the delinquents who works for Fagin, picks him up and brings him into a group of prostitutes and petty criminals. When Oliver meets a kind man with whom he moves in, Fagin fears that the boy will expose his schemes, has him kidnapped and prepares a cunning robbery of the house of the wealthy Mr Brownlow. Through adventures and misadventures, the film shows how childhood was understood at the time.