Wind from the Icy Country
Wind from the Icy Country | |
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Based on | play by Robert Amos |
Directed by | Patrick Barton |
Country of origin | Australia |
Original language | English |
Production | |
Running time | 65 mins |
Production company | ABC |
Original release | |
Release | 19 August 1964 (1964-08-19) (Melbourne)[1] |
Release | 30 September 1964 (1964-09-30)[2] |
Release | 16 September 1964 (1964-09-16) (Brisbane)[3] |
Wind from the Icy Country is a 1964 Australian television play directed by Patrick Barton and starring Norman Kaye.[4]
Premise
A German engineer, Ehrbar, who worked in China during the war encounters a Jewish doctor in an isolated Chinese mountain village in Paoshan, in the northwest. Ehrbar breaks down in a car with his companion, Ella, who is fleeing an unhappy marriage.
Cast
- Brian James as Rachmann
- Norman Kaye as Ehrbar
- Patsy King as Ella
- Kurt Ludescher as Captain Kang
- Neil Curnow as lt Mah
- Dawn Klinberg
- Roly Barlee
- Ray Angel
- Joseph Szabo
- Douglas Kelly
- Clen Farmer
- Blaise Anthony
Production
Robert Amos adapted his radio play. Amos described the story as a drama on conscience in the style of Kafka.[5]
Reception
The TV critic for The Sydney Morning Herald thought that it proved that "when a play is completely focused on the working out of intense human conflicts at close range, television proves to be an excellent medium... Brian James made the doctor into a tragic and moving figure consumed by the torture of past experience."[6]
References
- ^ "TV Guide". The Age. 13 August 1964. p. 35.
- ^ "WEDNESDAY". The Canberra Times. Vol. 39, no. 10, 962. Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 28 September 1964. p. 18. Retrieved 19 February 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "Man on the RUn". TV Times. 9 September 1964. p. 15.
- ^ Vagg, Stephen (18 February 2019). "60 Australian TV Plays of the 1950s & '60s". Filmink.
- ^ "Drama of Conscience Leaves it to the Viewers". The Age. 13 August 1964. p. 26.
- ^ "Play from Melbourne". Sydney Morning Herald. 1 October 1964. p. 8.
External links
- Wind from the Icy Country at IMDb
- Wind from the Icy Country at National Film and Sound Archive
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