Losing Track (1992) (TV)

Regisseur:

Jim Lee

Drehbuchautor:

Roger Eldridge (screenplay)

Premierendatum:

1992 (UK)

Genre:

Drama

Plot:

In 1950 a man returns home to the UK from India after the death of his wife to build bridges with his son, but instead ends up building an elaborate model railway. |

Plot Keywords:

Model Railway | Widower | Homecoming | Father Son Relationship | Expatriate

Nutzerkommentare:

Bonding/End Of Empire stuff...

Besetzung

Alan Bates	...	Henry Sitchell
Geraldine James	...	Mrs. Dewey
Michael Culver	...	Mr. Gervaise
Ben Holden	...	Clive
Sue Roderick	...	Ruby
James Copnall	...	Sidney "Rancid" Renton
Brinley Jenkins	...	Shopkeeper
Kirsten Jones	...	Actress in Play
Caroline Stubbs	...	Women's Institute Lady
Lynette Edwards	...	Actress in Play
Jack Walters	...	Taxi Driver
Judith Humphreys	...	Miss Nelson
Giles Thomas	...	Actor in Play

Länge:

85 Min

Produktionsland:

UK

Sprache:

Englisch

Farbe:

Farbe

Seitenverhältnis:

1.33 : 1

Firma:

BBC Wales

Bonding/End Of Empire stuff...

Austere civil servant Alan Bates returns from India to resume his relationship with his young son...

This rather obscure BBC Screen One was aired once and thrown in the archives (though I understand copies were made available on DVD by a daily newspaper in Spain). Really it concerns the bonding between Bate's empire minded father and the son to whom he appears a rather forbidding, formal stranger.

There are some very good scenes - when Bates buys his son a toy train set and then appropriates it for himself as a reminder of the authority he once had in India (re the title, Losing Track). And I liked the possibilities of his growing relationship with his son's governess and housekeeper.

It's all very civilised and nicely handled and, though the final scene doesn't come as a complete surprise, it's worth seeing.