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Cold Lazarus is a four-part British television drama written by Dennis Potter with the knowledge that he was dying of pancreatic cancer. [1] [2] It forms the second half of a pair with the television serial Karaoke.
Dennis Potter's last epic drama, starring Albert Finney. In 2368 a group of scientists are on the brink of a breakthrough as they begin to tap into the memory of a man who died in the...
Cold Lazarus: With Albert Finney, Ciarán Hinds, Frances de la Tour, Grant Masters. Writer Daniel Feeld, first seen in Dennis Potter's "Karaoke," returns three centuries later as a disembodied head.
- (777)
- 1997-06-04
- Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
- 300
Cold Lazarus advances the story of Karaoke to the year 2368 when the cryogenically frozen head of television scriptwriter Daniel Feeld (Albert Finney) is thawed by unscrupulous entertainment moguls who plunder his memories of 20th-century life – an irony intended by writer Dennis Potter who wrote the two shows simultaneously while dying of ...
Reviewed by: James Benefield. Cold Lazarus ends writer Dennis Potter's career on an elegiac note. But, as ever for Potter, this elegy is played out in bitter minor chords. This dichotomy is encased in a story of scientific ambition and moral ambiguity.
Cold Lazarus is the companion piece to Karaoke (see our review), and the last work Dennis Potter wrote as he struggled against his fatal illness. While Karaoke can stand on its own, Cold Lazarus is best understood as a companion piece or sequel to it.
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Cold Lazarus tells the story of a group of scientists in the future who are trying to recover memories from a hundreds-of-years old frozen severed head of a screenwriter Daniel Feeld, a character who was introduced in the earlier mini-series "Karaoke".
