Set in 1943 in Scotland during World War II. Janie is a young housewife married to a man named Dougal, 15 years her senior. As part of a war rehabilitation program, Janie and Dougal welcome three Italian POWs to work on their farm. Soon, Janie falls in love with one of them...
Acting
Phyllis Logan's face does more work than most scripts.
Cinematography
Gloomy Scottish coast so beautiful it hurts.
Direction
Radford knows restraint is the ultimate seduction.
Director
Michael Radford
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Phyllis Logan won Best Actress at Cannes for this role before most knew her name; she later played Mrs. Hughes in Downton Abbey.
The real Italian POW program in Scotland was far more documented than dramatized—Radford based this on actual accounts of fraught rural encounters.
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