A snowbound Hungarian estate, a shuttered theatre, and guests who may be lying about everything.
On a cold day in January 1850, a group of travelling actors arrive out of the snow at the remote country estate of Count Horvath, in eastern Hungary. The Count is delighted to have an excuse for re-opening the old family theatre, closed since his childhood. But other members of his household wonder whether these unexpected guests should be made quite so welcome.
Production
Palpable winter isolation— estate feels genuinely cut off from world.
Acting
Alec McCowen's Count masks desperation beneath aristocratic polish.
Director
Don Taylor
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This BBC television film was so rarely screened that it became genuine lost media until a 2022 rediscovery.
Director Don Taylor, blacklisted in the 1950s, frequently explored how outsiders penetrate insulated communities—here literalized by snow.
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