The Young Lovers (1954)
Directed by Anthony Asquith
Genres - Drama, Romance |
Sub-Genres - Romantic Drama |
Run Time - 96 min. |
Countries - United Kingdom |
MPAA Rating - NR
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Synopsis by Hal Erickson
Also known as Chance Meeting, The Young Lovers can be described as an Iron Curtain romance. The boy, Ted (David Knight), works as a code expert at the American Embassy in London. The girl, Anna (Odelle Versois), is the daughter of a communist dignitary. When Ted and Anna fall in love, they find their every move monitored by both sides. The course of true love is eventually roadblocked by bureaucracy, forcing hero and heroine to escape to a neutral corner of the world; the trouble is, there isn't any such corner. A lighter variation on this theme can be found in Peter Ustinov's play and film Romanoff and Juliet.
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forbidden-love, Cold-War, Iron-Curtain, code [encryption], Communism