The Young Lovers

The Young Lovers - 1954 | 96 mins | Drama | B&W

The Production Team

Director: Anthony Asquith.
Producer: Anthony Havelock-Allan.
Associate Producer: R. Denis Holt.
Script: George Tabori and Robin Estridge. (from a novel by George Tabori)
Cinematography: Jack Asher.
Music: Benjamin Frankel and Tchaikovsky

The Cast

Odile Versois - Anna Sobek
David Knight - Ted Hutchens
Joseph Tomelty - Moffat
Paul Carpenter - Gregg Pearson
Theodore Bikel - Joseph
Jill Adams - Judy
David Kossoff - Anton Sobek

Plot Synopsis

The Young Lovers is about a girl and a boy – she (Odile Versois) is Russians and the daughter of a communist luminary, he (David Knight) is in American code expert working for intelligence at the American Embassy in London. At Covent Garden, watching the Swan Lake ballet, they meet and fall in love and a problem immediately confronts them because they are from different sides of the Iron Curtain. They find their every move monitored by both sides. The course of true love is eventually blocked by bureaucracy, forcing hero and heroine to escape to a neutral corner of the world; the trouble is, there isn't any such corner.
Excerpt© 'Puffin Asquith' by R.J. Minney.