Summary
London’s gaslight smolders against velvet-upholstered corridors as Disraeli—part dandy, part sphinx—waltzes through drawing-room whispers and imperial chessboards, bent on wresting the Suez Canal from Rothschild vaults and Egyptian princes before Bismarck’s shadow can lengthen over India. In candlelit anterooms, he trades epigrams with queens, flatters bankers with sonnets, and converts gossip into geopolitical currency, while a coterie of starched diplomats, ambitious wives, and penniless aristocrats orbit his laconic wit like moths around a diamond chandelier. The film unfurls as a tapestry of ink-stained treaties, midnight telegrams, and the faint perfume of forged alliances, climaxing when the parchment is signed that cinches Britain’s maritime jugular and re-colors world maps with arterial red.
Synopsis
The story of British prime minister Benjamin Disraeli and the purchase by England of the Suez Canal.
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