Middle class schoolboy spends his summer holiday at an upper class schoolmate s country house only to be traumatized by the absurd social and sexual values of British aristocracy in the years before WW1.

Screenplay by Harold Pinter based on a novel by L.P.Hartley, with a haunting soundtrack score by Michel Legrand

This period drama won the Palme d Or of the Cannes Film Festival in 1971.


Director: Joseph Losey
Actors: Julie Christie, Alan Bates, Margaret Leighton, Michael Redgrave, Edward Fox, Michael Gough, Dominic Guard

PAL Fullscreen 1:33:1
Audio: English
Subs: English (added)
Runtime: 111 min.