Directed by:
Joseph LoseyScreenplay:
Harold PinterCinematography:
Gerry FisherComposer:
John DankworthCast:
Dirk Bogarde, Stanley Baker, Jacqueline Sassard, Michael York, Vivien Merchant, Delphine Seyrig, Alexander Knox, Freddie Jones, Harold Pinter, Terence Rigby (more)Plots(1)
Stephen (Dirk Bogarde) is a middle-aged professor at Oxford University. Stifled by his life of marriage and academia, he yearns for an affair with his beautiful and enigmatic student Anna (Jacqueline Sassard). He is locked into a battle for Anna's affection against her fiance, William (Michael York), whose youthful vitality he envies, and with his friend and academic rival Charley (Stanley Baker), whose media profile and sexual success he covets. (StudioCanal UK)
(more)Cast
Dirk Bogarde
UK
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The Damned (1969)
Stanley Baker
UK
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Jacqueline Sassard
France
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Michael York
UK
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Vivien Merchant
UK
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Delphine Seyrig
Lebanon
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Alexander Knox
Canada
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Freddie Jones
UK
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Harold Pinter
UK
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Terence Rigby
UK
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Ann Firbank
India
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Maxwell Caulfield
UK
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Carole Caplin
UK
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Brian Phelan
Ireland
Best movies:
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