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Brief Encounter is a 1945 British romantic drama film directed by David Lean and based on Noël Coward's play Still Life. It tells the story of a brief but intense affair between two married strangers in pre-World War II England.
Brief Encounter: Directed by David Lean. With Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard, Stanley Holloway, Joyce Carey. Meeting a stranger in a railway station, a woman is tempted to cheat on her husband.
- (45K)
- Drama, Romance
- David Lean
- 1946-08-24
A classic romantic drama about a married woman and a doctor who fall in love at a railway station during WWII. They meet every Thursday for tea and cinema, but their affair is doomed by their marital obligations and social conventions.
Oct 4, 2016 · Watch the classic British drama film Brief Encounter, directed by David Lean, on YouTube. Follow along with the transcript and see related videos and movies.
- 86 min
- 227.7K
- Buddy Salinger
Returning home from a shopping trip to a nearby town, bored suburban housewife Laura Jesson (Celia Johnson) is thrown by happenstance into an acquaintance with virtuous doctor Alec Harvey...
- (46)
- Celia Johnson
- David Lean
- Romance, Drama
Dec 14, 2012 · With “Brief Encounter,” David Lean (who earned his first Oscar nomination for this picture) shows his growing directorial gifts on route to his epic mastery of the movies and bravely deals with love that is frowned upon.
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A 1945 film adaptation of Noël Coward's play Still Life, directed by David Lean and starring Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard as a married doctor and a suburban housewife who fall in love. The DVD features commentary, interview, documentary, and essay on the film's production and legacy.
