Directed by:
Joseph LoseyScreenplay:
Tom StoppardCinematography:
Gerry FisherComposer:
Richard HartleyCast:
Glenda Jackson, Michael Caine, Helmut Berger, Michael Lonsdale, Béatrice Romand, Kate Nelligan, Nathalie Delon, Reinhard Kolldehoff, Doris Nolan, Phil Brown (more)VOD (1)
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Whilst suffering with writer's block, successful novelist Lewis Fielding (Michael Caine) suspects his discontented wife Elizabeth (Glenda Jackson), who is holidaying alone in Baden Baden, of having an affair. Frustrated with her husband's jealousy and attempts to manipulate her, Elizabeth confirms Lewis's suspicions and embarks on a steamy affair with handsome young German Thomas (Helmut Berger), who claims to be a poet but is in fact a drug dealer. Fact and fiction grow evermore entwined when, after Elizabeth's return to England, Lewis invites Thomas into his home to ask for his thoughts on the screenplay he is trying to write. It isn't long before Thomas is not only Lewis's technical advisor but also an integral part of the plot. (Odeon)
(more)Cast
Glenda Jackson
UK
Best movies:
This Sporting Life (1963)
Marat/Sade (1967)
The Incredible Sarah (1976)
Michael Caine
UK
Best movies:
The Dark Knight (2008)
Inception (2010)
The Prestige (2006)
Helmut Berger
German Empire
Best movies:
The Godfather: Part III (1990)
Conversation Piece (1974)
The Damned (1969)
Michael Lonsdale
France
Best movies:
The Day of the Jackal (1973)
The Name of the Rose (1986)
Order of the Daisy (1967)
Béatrice Romand
Algeria
Best movies:
L'allée du roi (1996) (series)
Love in the Afternoon (1972)
The Green Ray (1986)
Kate Nelligan
Canada
Best movies:
The Cider House Rules (1999)
Liar, Liar (1993) (TV movie)
The Prince of Tides (1991)
Nathalie Delon
Morocco
Best movies:
Army of Shadows (1969)
Le Samouraï (1967)
Bluebeard (1972)
Reinhard Kolldehoff
German Empire
Best movies:
Don't Look Now: We're Being Shot At (1966)
The Damned (1969)
The Violent People (1970)
Doris Nolan
USA
Best movies:
Holiday (1938)
Juggernaut (1974)
The Romantic Englishwoman (1975)
Phil Brown
USA
Best movies:
Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope (1977)
The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976)
Chaplin (1992)
Frances Tomelty
UK
Best movies:
The Medusa Touch (1978)
Play It Again, Sam (1972)
The Field (1990)
Tom Chatto
UK
Best movies:
Battle of Britain (1969)
Quatermass 2 (1957)
Assault (1971)
Julie Peasgood
UK
Best movies:
Taggart (1983) (series)
House of the Long Shadows (1983)
The Romantic Englishwoman (1975)
Bill Wallis
UK
Best movies:
Brazil (1985)
Agatha Christie's Poirot (1989) (series)
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Espionage Escapades (1999) - a.f.
David de Keyser
UK
Best movies:
Far Pavilions, The (1984) (series)
Murder on the Orient Express (1974)
Yentl (1983)
Norman Scace
Best movies:
The Romantic Englishwoman (1975)
Lillias Walker
UK
Best movies:
The Hiding Place (1975)
The Romantic Englishwoman (1975)