The Elephant Man (1980)

BBC Two Northern Ireland

11:55 PM to 1:55 AM

Sunday 9 February

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In 1884, ambitious young surgeon Frederick Treves is intrigued by a sideshow freak billed as the Elephant Man. He finds, behind the disfigured exhibit, an intelligent person called John Merrick, whose rehabilitation he undertakes, with the severely deformed man's life being transformed by the friendship that develops between the two. Fact-based drama directed by David Lynch, starring John Hurt, Anthony Hopkins, Anne Bancroft, John Gielgud, Wendy Hiller and Freddie Jones