Brief Encounter

Brief Encounter is a 1945 British film, directed by David Lean and with Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard in the leading roles. The film music consists of parts of thePiano Concerto No. 2 by Rachmaninoff.



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[hide] *1 Story  ==Story[ Edit] == The story is told from the perspective of Laura Jesson (Johnson), a housewife from a small town. She is married to a decent man who has more attention for crossword puzzles, however, than for her. In order to escape the boredom, she goes every week with the train to the big city for shopping and to see a matinee movie.
 * 2 Cast
 * 3 Prices
 * 4 Display in Netherlands
 * 5 Museum
 * 6 external link

After such a day out will get them on the drive when coal dust in her eye. Another passenger, the doctor Alec Harvey (Howard), helps her to remove the grit. Know in his early thirties, married and have two children. The doctor is a family physician in another provincial town who also once a week in the big city comes to the hospital to help.

This results in an animated conversation, and both of them drink tea in the railway station restaurant, where they wait in their own train home. Soon they are in love with each other. They make a beginning of discrete dates, in cafés and cinemas, to keep their meetings secret. Alec may at some point for an evening borrow a friend's House, but their love is not consummated because the friend unexpectedly earlier returns. This is a sign for them is that the relationship really stops; they decide to their families to stay true and to no longer see each other. ==Division Of Roles[ Edit] == ==Prices[ Edit] == The film won in 1946 a Grand Prix du Festival at the Cannes film festival. ==Display in Netherlands<span class="mw-editsection" len="344" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The film was from 1946 in Dutch cinemas screened under the title the last rendez-vous. The film censorship approved the movie for 18 years and older because there is infidelity in marriage was shown<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-1" len="167" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[1] . ==Museum<span class="mw-editsection" len="328" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == The railway clock of Carnforth.<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The film is included in the train station of the northern English Carnforth. There is also the museum Carnforth Station Heritage Centre which is largely about recording the movie goes. Thanks to the museum is also the iconic clock restored and again above the main platform replaced.
 * Celia Johnson: Laura Jesson
 * Trevor Howard: Dr. Alec Harvey
 * Stanley Holloway: Albert Godby
 * Joyce Carey: Myrtle Bagot
 * Cyril Raymond: Fred Jesson
 * Hasnah Gregg: Dolly Messiter
 * Marjorie Mars: Mary Norton