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The Children (1990)
Directed by Tony Palmer
“The love of a woman brought him back home. The love of the children brough him back to life.”
Drama · 1h 28m
After years working in Brazil, middle-aged engineer Martin Boyner returns to Switzerland to marry his longtime friend, the recently widowed Rose Sellars. En route, he encounters an old acquaintance and soon finds himself entranced by and then caring for her seven emotionally abandoned children. The oldest girl, Judith, quickly beguiles Martin with her unsettling blend of innocence and maturity. And suddenly Martin's orderly blueprint for the future is thrown into disarray as Judith's youth and spirit transform his routine life into a dangerously passionate new equation.
Cast
Ben Kingsley
Martin Boyne
Kim Novak
Rose Sellars
Karen Black
Sybil Lullmer
Geraldine Chaplin
Joyce Wheater
Britt Ekland
Zinnia Wrench
Rupert Graves
Gerald Ormerod
Rosemary Leach
Scopy
Terence Rigby
The Duke of Mendip
Donald Sinden
Lord Wrench
Robert Stephens
Azariah Dobree
Joe Don Baker
Cliffe Wheater
Crew
- Director
- Tony Palmer
- Screenplay
- Timberlake Wertenbaker
- Novel
- Edith Wharton
- Director of Photography
- Nicholas D. Knowland
- Original Music Composer
- Samuel Barber, Benjamin Britten, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Evelyn Glennie
- Producer
- Andrew Montgomery
Details
- Release date
- 1990-05-18
- Runtime
- 1h 28m
- Genres
- Drama
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United Kingdom
- Production
- Isolde Films, Hemdale Film Corporation, Arbo-Film, Maran Film, Film4 Productions