Wind from the Icy Country

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| based_on = play by Robert Amos

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| director = Patrick Barton

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| released = {{Start date|1964|08|19|df=y}} (Melbourne){{cite news|newspaper=The Age|date=13 August 1964|title=TV Guide|page=35|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/122104774/?terms=%22patrick%2Bbarton%22}}

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Wind from the Icy Country is a 1964 Australian television play directed by Patrick Barton and starring Norman Kaye.{{cite magazine|first=Stephen|last=Vagg|url=https://www.filmink.com.au/60-australian-tv-plays-1950s-60s/|magazine=Filmink|title=60 Australian TV Plays of the 1950s & '60s|date=February 18, 2019}}

Premise

A German engineer, Ehrbar, who worked in China during the war encounters a Jewish doctor in an isolated Chinese mountain village in Paoshan, in the northwest. Ehrbar breaks down in a car with his companion, Ella, who is fleeing an unhappy marriage.

Cast

Brian James as Rachmann
Norman Kaye as Ehrbar
Patsy King as Ella
Kurt Ludescher as Captain Kang
Neil Curnow as lt Mah
Dawn Klinberg
Roly Barlee
Ray Angel
Joseph Szabo
Douglas Kelly
Clen Farmer
Blaise Anthony

Production

Robert Amos adapted his radio play. Amos described the story as a drama on conscience in the style of Kafka.{{cite news|newspaper=The Age|title=Drama of Conscience Leaves it to the Viewers|date=13 August 1964|page=26|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/122104610/?terms=%22patrick%2Bbarton%22}}

Reception

The TV critic for The Sydney Morning Herald thought that it proved that "when a play is completely focused on the working out of intense human conflicts at close range, television proves to be an excellent medium... Brian James made the doctor into a tragic and moving figure consumed by the torture of past experience."{{cite news|title=Play from Melbourne|newspaper=Sydney Morning Herald|date=1 October 1964|page=8|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/123864492/?terms=%22patrick%2Bbarton%22}}

References

External links

[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4094796/?ref_=nm_flmg_prd_10 Wind from the Icy Country] at IMDb
[http://colsearch.nfsa.gov.au/nfsa/search/display/display.w3p;adv=;group=;groupequals=;holdingType=;page=1;parentid=;query=Person%3A%22%2FPerson%2Fkey%2F16354-1%22;querytype=;rec=8;resCount=10 Wind from the Icy Country] at National Film and Sound Archive

Category:Australian television films

Category:1964 television plays