England Made Me

England Made Me (1973)

A young, English, ne'er-do-well who goes to stay with his sister and her wealthy fiancé/benefactor in 1930's Germany, just before the rise of the Nazi party.

Data di uscita
1973-06-01
TMDB
6.1 / 10 (8)
Durata
1 h 40 min
Generi
Dramma
Regista
Peter Duffell

Cast

Curiosità

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England Made Me is a 1973 British drama film directed by Peter Duffell, starring Peter Finch, Michael York, Hildegarde Neil, and Michael Hordern, and based on the 1935 novel England Made Me by Graham Greene.

Production

Graham Greene repeatedly named the novel as a favourite among his own works: "I have a particularly soft spot for England Made Me"; "I have always had a soft spot in my heart for my fifth published novel, England Made Me (a feeling which has not been shared by the general public)". He retained the film rights for over 30 years, hoping (according to some sources) to adapt it himself.

American producer Jack Levin approached Peter Duffell to direct in 1971, after Lars-Magnus Lindgren and Alan Schneider had proved unavailable. The screenplay to be used, by Wolf Mankowitz, retained the Swedish setting but moved the action to the present day: Duffell recalled "lots of pot smoking and copulation. I really didn't reckon it at all".

The script ultimately used, by Duffell and Desmond Cory, stayed in the 1930s but moved the plot from Sweden to Germany; it also removed the detail that Tony and Kate are twins. Duffell admitted that "One of the key things in the novel is that it is about siblings. Yet one had seen so many disastrous attempts to do twins on the screen."

Duffell's first choice to play Krogh was Joss Ackland (who ended up in the subsidiary role of Haller). The film-makers needed a box-office draw in order to get financial backing, however, and approached Peter Finch for the part. Finch, who had appeared in an earlier Greene adaptation, The Heart of the Matter (1953), admired the novelist and accepted.

Michael York rejected the offer to play Tony, as he had just played an Englishman in 1930s Germany in Cabaret ("it would have been just a repeat performance"), then felt he'd made "a stupid, superficial judgment" and called the producers back to accept. Duffell considered Susannah York for the part of Kate, but she was committed to filming Images for Robert Altman.

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