The Scarlet Pimpernel - Series 1 - The Scarlet Pimpernel

Feature-length drama based on the character created by Baroness Orczy. At the height of the French Revolution in 1793, a mysterious Pimpernel continues to embarrass Robespierre and the head of secret police, Citizen Chauvelin, by rescuing aristocrats from under the authorities' noses. Chauvelin travels to England to uncover the man's identity, and meets his former lover, a French actress, at a lavish ball.