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The Countess Alice'' is a 1992
BBC – Radio Times – ''ScreenPlay: The Countess Alice''
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BFI Film and TV database BBC["Screenplay: The Countess Alice TV Transmission"](_blank)
BFI film and TV database made for television drama film
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directed by Moira Armstrong and features Wendy Hiller
Dame Wendy Margaret Hiller, (15 August 1912 – 14 May 2003) was an English film and stage actress who enjoyed a varied acting career that spanned nearly 60 years. Writer Joel Hirschorn, in his 1984 compilation ''Rating the Movie Stars'', desc ...
, Zoë Wanamaker
Zoë Wanamaker (born 13 May 1949) is a British-American actress who has worked extensively with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre. A nine-time Olivier Award nominee, she won for '' Once in a Lifetime'' (1979) and ''Electra' ...
and Duncan Bell. This was Wendy Hiller's last film role. It was made with the support of WGBH-Boston and shown on the American PBS
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network in 1993. It was written by Allan Cubitt as part of the BBC #REDIRECT BBC #REDIRECT BBC
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Synopsis
In 1935 a young English society woman caused a stir by marrying a German aristocrat and moving to live with him in Germany. Many decades later, shortly after German reunification, her daughter decides to make a trip to the family's former estate in
East Germany
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However, she discovers the grave of a child with her name in the family plot. Back in Britain, she forces a confession from her mother that she is not her natural daughter. The 'real' Konstanza had been shot by the invading Russians, and the Countess had been forced to take the daughter of a dying couple to save the child's life. She is unable to recall anything about Connie's real background. A breach between the two women is followed by a reconciliation.
Cast
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Wendy Hiller
Dame Wendy Margaret Hiller, (15 August 1912 – 14 May 2003) was an English film and stage actress who enjoyed a varied acting career that spanned nearly 60 years. Writer Joel Hirschorn, in his 1984 compilation ''Rating the Movie Stars'', desc ...
as Countess Alice von Holzendorf
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Zoë Wanamaker
Zoë Wanamaker (born 13 May 1949) is a British-American actress who has worked extensively with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre. A nine-time Olivier Award nominee, she won for '' Once in a Lifetime'' (1979) and ''Electra' ...
as Connie
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Duncan Bell as Nick Black
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Patricia Quinn as Margot
* Lucinda Fisher as Jane
* Sylvia Barter as Tilly
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Madge Ryan
:''She is sometimes confused with American actress Fran Ryan.''
Madge Winifred Ryan (8 January 1919 – 9 January 1994) was an Australian actress, known for her stage and film roles in the United Kingdom, including London stage productions of ' ...
as Beattie
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Martin Wimbush
Martin Wimbush (born 1949) is a British actor known for his roles in film, television, and theatre.
Early life and education
Born in London, Wimbush trained at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama between 1967 and 1969, and then worked e ...
as Jeremy
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Terence Donovan as himself
* Sarah Crowden as Sarah
* Jan Van Hool as Vivian
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Wolf Kahler as Werner
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Carl Duering
Gerald Percy Fox (29 May 1923 – 1 September 2018), better known as Carl Duering, was a German-born British actor whose best-known role is as Dr. Brodsky in Stanley Kubrick's ''A Clockwork Orange''. He died in London in September 2018 at the age ...
as German Taxi Driver
Critical reception
The ''New York Times'' described the story as "fragile and not entirely persuasive, but many of the details are skillfully observed," with praise for Hiller: "Miss Hiller has rarely failed to impress, but her recent performances have assumed an even higher level of authority. The voice is more commanding, the bearing more regal. The effect can be quite astonishing."
[John J. O'Connor, "Wendy Hiller as Countess With Past"](_blank)
''New York Times,'' 17 October 1986, accessed 20 May 2019 Thomas Sutcliffe of ''
The Independent
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'' called the plotting "rather casual", and praised both Wanamaker and Hiller, also writing "So coercive was the direction in this respect that I was readying myself to laugh at the climactic encounter out of sheer cussedness; that I couldn't was down to Hiller's delicate persuasion and Wanamaker's compelling display of grief."
[''The Independent,''](_blank)
2 July 1992, accessed 20 May 2019
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