De jonge Bathsheba Everdene, erfgename van een grote boerderij in het Zuid-Engelse graafschap Dorsetshire, wordt door twee mannen aanbeden. Ze houden allebei echt van haar, maar Bathsheba trouwt met een rokkenjager, die haar vervolgens in de steek laat.
Nee, helaas is Far from the Madding Crowd nog niet beschikbaar op Netflix in Nederland.
| Directing | John Schlesinger | Director |
| Writing | Thomas Hardy | Novel |
| Writing | Frederic Raphael | Screenplay |
| Production | Joseph Janni | Producer |
| Production | Edward Joseph | Production Manager |
| Camera | Nicolas Roeg | Director of Photography |
| Editing | Malcolm Cooke | Editor |
| Art | Roy Forge Smith | Art Direction |
| Art | Peter James | Set Decoration |
| Costume & Make-Up | Alan Barrett | Costume Design |
| Costume & Make-Up | Ivy Emmerton | Hairstylist |
| Costume & Make-Up | Bob Lawrance | Makeup Artist |
| Costume & Make-Up | Philip Leakey | Makeup Artist |
| Production | Frank Ernst | Production Manager |
| Production | Miriam Brickman | Casting |
| Directing | Kip Gowans | Assistant Director |
| Art | Richard Macdonald | Production Design |
| Sound | Richard Rodney Bennett | Original Music Composer |
| Sound | Robin Gregory | Sound Recordist |
