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Ralph Fiennes s 20 best film performances – ranked! Peter Bradshaw
This version of Dickens’s Great Expectations, scripted by David Nicholls, was maybe not groundbreaking but was watchable and featured Ralph Fiennes as the convict Magwitch. He is seen first leaping out and scaring Pip in the churchyard with a convict’s number-one cut and mud all over his face, and later with longish hair, clean-shaven in a mysterious, new respectable guise. It’s a transformation that should perhaps have given Fiennes more of a performing showcase.
Renowned Hungarian director István Szabó gave Fiennes arguably the biggest technical challenge of his movie career: to play three characters, three generations of a Hungarian Jewish family in the Habsburg empire’s final years. First: Ignatz Sonnenschein (German for “sunshine”) who changes his surname to Sors (Hungarian for “fate”) to avoid antisemitism. As his son Adam Sors, Fiennes is now a glamorous fencing champion,