Cast
(in
alphabetical order) |
James Appleby.....Cab Driver
Sylvia Barter.....Tilly
Duncan Bell.....Nick Black
Hannah Cresswell.....Debbie
Sarah Crowden.....Sarah
Terence Donovan.....Himself
Carl Duering.....German Taxi Driver
Lucinda Fisher.....Jane
Dame Wendy Hiller.....Alice, Countess Von Holzendorf
Wolf Kahler.....Werner
Patricia Quinn.....Margot
Madge Ryan.....Beattie
Chris Stanton.....Vicar
Alexander Torriglia.....Restaurant Manager
Jan Van Hool.....Sarah
Zoë Wanamaker.....Connie
Martin Wimbush.....Jeremy
Michael Wolf.....Caretaker |
Production |
| Connie, the
daughter of a late Prussian count, lives with her mother in
genteel poverty. Dissatisfied with her life in
London, Connie travels to the ancestral home in East Germany,
against her mother's wishes. Once there, a visit to the
family's graveyard produces some shocking revelations.
Have Connie and her mother been living a lie? |
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Notes |
| Zoë's
role in this production was discussed during a magazine
interview, shortly before the programme was first
broadcast: 'In The Countess Alice she plays Connie, a
frustrated middle-aged woman who lives in genteel
poverty with her 30s society-beauty mother. Connie
resorts to refilling Fortnum and Mason tea caddies and
jam pots with cheaper supermarket fare, so her countess
mother may keep up appearances. But when Connie
goes to visit the German ancestral home, she discovers
that their lives are an elaborate sham. Forced to
rewrite her own history, she breaks down.' |
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