Accident
The story of a love triangle... and the four people trapped in it!
Overview
Stephen is a professor at Oxford University who is caught in a rut and feels trapped by his life in both academia and marriage. One of his students, William, is engaged to the beautiful Anna, and Stephen becomes enamored of the younger woman. These three people become linked together by a horrible car crash, with flashbacks providing details into the lives of each person and their connection to the others in this brooding English drama.
Fun facts
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Awards
Won the Cannes Film Festival Grand Prix (1967) and the National Board of Review for Top Ten Films
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Box office
Made on a $600K budget
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Setting
Set in England
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Music
Music by John Dankworth
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Cinematography
Cinematography by Gerry Fisher
Details
- Director
- Writers
- Nicholas MosleyNovel
- Harold PinterScreenplay
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- February 9, 1967
- Original language
- English
- Budget
- $600K
- Countries
- United Kingdom
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Cast
Dirk BogardeStephen
Stanley BakerCharley
Jacqueline SassardAnna
Michael YorkWilliam
Vivien MerchantRosalind
Delphine SeyrigFrancesca
Alexander KnoxProvost
Ann FirbankLaura
Brian PhelanPolice Sergeant
Terence RigbyPlain Clothed Policeman
Freddie JonesMan in Bell's Office- Jill JohnsonSecretary
- Jane HillaryReceptionist
Maxwell CaulfieldTed- Carole CaplinClarissa
Harold PinterBell - TV Producer- Nicholas MosleyDon Hedges
- Steven EastonStephen & Rosalind's Baby (uncredited)
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