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The Browning Version

German title: Schrei in die Vergangenheit
Francaise title: Les leçons de la vie
Spain title: La versión Browning
Greek title: Η еκδοχή του Μπράουνιγκ
Russian title: Версия Браунинга
Original title: The Browning Version

Alternative titles:
Una lección de vida

Drama – Großbritannien
Production year: 1993
Movie length: 93 minutes

Director: Mike Figgis
Writer: Ronald Harwood
Cinematograph: Jean-François Robin
Music: Mark Isham

Movie description:

Andrew Crocker-Harris is an embittered and disliked teacher of Greek and Latin at a British prep school. After nearly 20 years of service, he is being forced to retire on the pretext of his health, and perhaps may not even be given a pension. The boys regard him as a Hitler, with some justifi-cation. His wife Laura is unfaithful, and lives to wound him any way she can. Andrew must come to terms with his failed life and regain at least his own self-respect.

Andrew Crocker-Harris, a teacher of Greek and Latin at a traditional English prep school, is called the »Hitler of the Lower Sixth« by his students. His rigidity and cruelty are the sad remnants of an extinguished passion for classical literature. But as he is poised to leave the school – forced into retirement by the headmaster and made ridiculous by the infidelities of his wife Laura – Crocker-Harris finds his love for learning rekindled by the interest and sympathy of the young student John Taplow, a real cutie, who gives him Robert Browning’s translation of »Aeschylus’ Agamemnon« as a parting gift.

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