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"Convention outraged...a class abandoned...a country betrayed!"

Summary:

Based on the award winning play by Julian Mitchell, the film explores the effect of Public School life in the 1930's on Guy Bennett (Rupert Everett) as his homosexuality and unwillingness to "play the game" turns him eastwards towards communist Russia. Loosely based on the life of Guy Burgess, a key figure in the Cambridge Spy Ring of the 1940's who eventually defected to Russia in 1951. The upper class establishment refused to believe he was a spy because he had been to public school.


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His film portrayal of Judd, the prickly, driven communist schoolboy in an established private school, encapsulated everything about his acting style that was to come: compressed, full of understated force and density, and deeply touching in its pivotal scheme of transformation as the walled-in Judd responds to human sympathy.


The moment did not rely on words. Mr. Firth's deep, resonant voice never changed a key. His body barely moved. His face remained blank: it was all in the eyes.

[NY Times -1996]

Memorable Quotes from "Another Country":


Tommy Judd: All problems solved for life. No commies and no queers.

Fowler: I have half a mind to ask Barclay for permission to beat you!

Tommy Judd: Well, you've half a mind. We can all agree on that.


Guy Bennett: Fame or infamy, what does it matter? I shan't be forgotten. 


Fowler: Are you trying to be clever or something?

Tommy Judd: I don't have to try, I am clever.


Directed by:

Marek Kanievska


Writing credits (in alphabetical order):

Julian Mitchell (play)



Full credits here


Runtime: 90 min

Country: UK

Language: English

Color: Color

Sound Mix: Dolby

Certification: Sweden:11 / UK:15 / USA:PG / West Germany:12


MPAA Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested: some material may not suitable for children) 


Also Known As (AKA): 

Another Country - La scelta

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Italy

Another country - Histoire d'une trahison

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France

Guy Bennett: Toista maata

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Finland

História de Uma Traição

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Portugal

Inny kraj

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Poland

Landet uden nåde

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Denmark

Memórias de um Espião

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Brazil

Otro país

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Spain

Vakoojan tarina

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Finland

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With thanks to

Colin Firth Career Timeline

Cast:

Rupert Everett

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Guy Bennett

Colin Firth

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Tommy Judd

Michael Jenn

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Barclay

Robert Addie

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Delahay

Rupert Wainwright

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Donald Devenish

Tristan Oliver

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Fowler

Cary Elwes

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James Harcourt

Frederick Alexander

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Jim Menzies

Adrian Ross Magenty

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Wharton

Geoffrey Bateman

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Yevgeni

Philip Dupuy

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Martineau

Guy Henry

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Head Boy

Jeffrey Wickham

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Arthur

John Line

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Best Man

Gideon Boulting

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Trafford


Information courtesy of The Internet Movie Database.

Tidbits by Rotten Tomatoes.

Also with thanks to the Colin Firth Career Timeline