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THE LIBERTINE
ISLE OF MAN FILM
THE WEINSTEIN COMPANY
CAST
Rochester...............................................JOHNNY DEPP
Chiffinch...............................................PAUL RITTER
Chrles II............................................JOHN MALKOVICH
Keown..............................................STANLEY TOWNSEND
Countess............................................FRANCESCA ANNIS
Etherege..............................................TOM HOLLANDER
CREW
Director...........................................LAURENCE DUNMORE
Producer..............................................LIANNE HALFON
.....................................................JOHN MALKOVICH
......................................................RUSSELL SMITH
Executive Producer.....................................CHASE BAILEY
Screenplay.........................................STEPHEN JEFFREYS
Music by..............................................MICHAEL NYMAN
Director of Photography............................ALEXANDER MELMAN
Production Designer......................................BEN VAN OS
Costume Designer..................................DIEN VAN STRAALEN
Set Decoration..............................ROBERT WISCHHUSEN-HAYES
Film Editing...........................................JILL BILCOCK
In 1660, with the return of Charles II to the English throne, theater, the visual arts, science and sexual intercourse flourish. Thirteen years later, in the middle of political and economical problems, Charles II asks the return of his friend John Wilmot, aka the second Earl of Rochester, from the exile to London. John is a morally corrupt, drunkard and sexually active cynical poet, and the King asks him to prepare a play for the French ambassador to make him pleased. John meets the aspirant actress Elizabeth Barry in the playhouse and decides to make her a great star. He falls in love for her, and she becomes his mistress; during the presentation to the Frenchman, he falls in disgrace in the court. When he was thirty-three years old, he was dying of syphilis associated to alcoholism and he converted to a religious man.
  
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