"The Browning Version", filmed by director Anthony Esquith in 1951, is the first of the adaptations of Terence Rattigan's very popular play in the late 40s. In the title role is the magnificent Michael Redgrave. An elderly professor, who teaches Latin and Greek, was about to leave (or was pushed to do so) for another school with a clear demotion. In appearance, he is a completely soulless cracker, whom no one in school loves - neither students, nor teachers, nor his own wife, with whom they have long lived in an atmosphere of mutual hostility. And a small event—a gift from his pupil—and the atmosphere in which it all happens suddenly changes a lot, including himself. I liked the film, it is about the eternal - about people, about their passions, vices, happiness and unhappiness.
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