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Program Title
Impromptu

Based On
Original screenplay by Sarah Kernochan

Number of Episodes:
1

Description
When George Sand, the scandal-provoking, trouser-clad French author, first met the fragile, sickly Polish composer Frederic Chopin she decided that he would someday be hers. Impromptu tells the story of her determined, and eventually successful, pursuit of this reluctant lover.


Original broadcast date
1993-02-07

Cast Characters
Judy Davis George Sand
Hugh Grant Frederic Chopin
Emma Thompson Duchess D'Antan

Credits

Producer: Stuart Oken, Daniel A Sherkow
Director: James Lapine



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