Who wrote the novel from which the 2015 British romantic drama was adapted where Matthias Schoenaerts plays Gabriel Oak?
Far from the Madding Crowd (2015 film) Far from the Madding Crowd is a 2015 British romantic drama film directed by Thomas Vinterberg and starring Carey Mulligan, Matthias Schoenaerts, Michael Sheen, Tom Sturridge and Juno Temple. It is an adaptation of the 1874 novel of the same name by Thomas Hardy, the fourth time this novel has been filmed.
The Oak and the Calf The Oak and the Calf, subtitled "Sketches of Literary Life in the Soviet Union", is a memoir by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn about his attempts to publish work in his own country. Solzhenitsyn began writing the memoir in April 1967, when he was 49 years old, and added supplements in 1971, 1973, and 1974. The work was first published in Russian in 1975 under the title "Бодался теленок с дубом" (lit. ""A Calf Head-butting with an Oak"", an ironic phrase). It has been translated into English by Harry Willetts.