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Bernhard Sinkel (writer)
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Release Date:
16 May 1988 (USA) See more »
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Awards:
Won Golden Globe. Another 3 nominations See more »
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Cast

 (Series Cast) (in credits order)

Stacy Keach ... Ernest Hemingway
Josephine Chaplin ... Hadley Richardson

Marisa Berenson ... Pauline Pfeiffer

Lisa Banes ... Martha Gelhorn

Pamela Reed ... Mary Welsh

Scott Weinger ... Patrick Hemingway
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Pascal Aubier
Stann Babb ... Ambulance Tech (1988)
Jacques Balutin ... Trainer (as Jacques Ballutin)
Alba Raquel Barros
Jaime Bello
Jay Benedict

Jean-Yves Berteloot ... Jean the waiter
Jorge Bosso ... Proprietor Hotel La Perla
Jean-Claude Bouillon
Uwe Brandner
Judith Burnett ... Alice Toklas
Elia Enid Cadilla
José María Caffarel (as Jose Mª Cafarell)
Raúl Carbonell (as Raul Carbonel Huo)
Geoffrey Carey ... Ezra Pound
Robert Case

Laura Cepeda
Richard De Burnchurch ... Pat Guthrie
Consuelo De Haviland ... Kitty Canell
Raoul Delfosse
Jerry Di Giacomo ... Harold Loeb
Jesse Doran ... John Dos Passos
Bill Dunn
Brian Edwards
Tim Eisenhart ... Dr. Saviers
Eric Elterman
Nader Farman ... Leon Fleischman
Logan Field
Alain Flick ... Lavigne

Raymond Forchion ... Willard (as Ray Forchion)
Rafael Fuentes
Fiona Fullerton ... Lady Duff Twysden
Steve Gadler
Robert Ground
Fernando Guillén ... Ordóñez
Carmen Gutiérrez ... Housekeeper
Hans Peter Hallwachs
Jens Hessel
Michael Hofland
Margaret Kelly
Jeffrey Kime

Bill Lawrence ... Time / Life Reporter
Armando Lodigiani ... Gregorio Fuentes
Jack Luceno ... Evan Shipman
Daniele Magli
Philippe Mareuil ... M. Fouchard
Phillip Marquis
Mike Marshall
Renzo Martini
Rory McGuinness
Roy McKechinie
Michel Modo
Benjamín Morales
Michael Morris
Muritthi
Bernard Musson

Carla Orlandi ... Lola (1988)
Virgen 'Coco' Orta
David Pearson
Emil Perauer
Jean François Pistori

Priscilla Pointer ... Grace Hemingway
Rebecca Potok ... Gertrude Stein
Rex Robbins ... Max Perkins
Oscar Rowland
Carlos Ruiz

Aldo Sambrell ... Old Italian Soldier
Dudley Sutton
Clarence Thomas

Ana Torrent
Uhuru
Pierre Vernier
James Villiers ... Perceval
Ka Vundla
Jesse Joe Walsh
James Ward
Gérard Watkins

Stuart Whitman ... Dr. Hemingway
Zoey Wilson ... Sylvia Beach
Rosel Zech ... Lilli Marleen
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Directed by
Bernhard Sinkel 
 
Writing credits
(in alphabetical order)
Bernhard Sinkel  writer

Produced by
James Maniolas .... executive producer
Ermanno Mardessich .... executive producer
Linda Marmelstein .... line producer
Ulrich Picard .... line producer
Bodo Scriba .... producer
Serge Silberman .... producer
Gerhard von Halem .... line producer
Daniel Wilson .... producer
 
Original Music by
James Calabrese 
Kenneth Higgins 
 
Cinematography by
Wolfgang Treu (director of photography)
 
Film Editing by
John Carter 
 
Casting by
Sabine Schroth (1988)
 
Production Design by
Franz Bauer 
Woods Mackintosh 
Michael Molly 
Götz Weidner 
 
Art Direction by
Nicole Rachline 
 
Set Decoration by
Tom Coll 
Victor Kempster 
Pierre Lefait 
Ubaldo Righetti 
 
Costume Design by
Barbara Baum 
Helen P. Butler 
 
Makeup Department
Marie-Hélène Duguet .... makeup artist
Nadine Dumas .... makeup artist
Georgette Künsemüller .... makeup artist
Blanca Sánchez .... makeup artist
 
Production Management
Conrad Bailey .... production manager
Patrick Baumann .... production manager
Lynn Bishop .... production manager
Miguel Ángel González .... unit production manager: Spain & Puerto Rico
Ellen Gordon .... location production supervisor
Tam Halling .... production manager (as Tam Hallig)
Marcel Just .... unit production manager: Switzerland
Therese Kaufmann .... production manager
Ermanno Mardessich .... unit production manager: Italy
Fernando Marqueríe .... production manager
Giorgio Padoan .... production manager
Claude-Anne Paureilhe .... production manager
Savo Radunovic .... production manager (1988)
 
Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Andrea Prandstraller .... co-assistant director
Peter Sehr .... first assistant director
Bernard Seitz .... co-assistant director
Bettina Tissi .... co-assistant director
Ricardo Walker .... co-assistant director (as Richard Walker)
 
Art Department
William A. Cimino .... set dresser
 
Sound Department
Marko A. Costanzo .... foley artist
Kevin Lee .... supervising sound editor
 
Camera and Electrical Department
Jerry Bertolami .... dolly grip
Pedro J. Villalón .... electrician (uncredited)
 
Casting Department
Dee Miller .... location casting
 
Editorial Department
Lillian Benson .... assistant editor
 
Other crew
Nicole Antuna .... production assistant (1988)
Jens Hessel .... coordinator: Kenya
Larry Hills .... marine coordinator: USA
Armando Lodigiani .... location manager
Marc Wolff .... helicopter pilot: Kenya
 

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3 out of 3 people found the following review useful.
Excellent Account of Life of Hemingway, Well Made and Engrossing, 16 August 2008
Author: robert-temple-1 from United Kingdom

The director Bernhard Sinkel made this excellent mini-series about Hemingway as long ago as 1988, and in 2003 it was finally made available on DVD, but it deserves to be much more widely known. Stacy Keach delivers a magnificent tour de force performance as Hemingway, and carries the entire series with power and conviction, satisfactorily making the transition from a virile young man to an old man suffering from no less than five brain concussions. (The makeup is superb, or this would not have worked.) It is amazing how much money was spent on this series, as extensive location shooting took place everywhere that was important in Hemingway's life. The series concentrates on Hemingway's troubled emotional life, with vivid and searing portraits of his relationships with his four successive wives. Hadley is well portrayed by Josephine Chaplin, with sweetness and devotion, and a helpless resignation to being left by him. It is a pity that Josephine ceased acting many years ago. The most riveting portrayal of a wife is by Marisa Berenson, as the predatory Pauline Pfeiffer. Although, from what Morley Callaghan tells us, Pauline was colder, less sympathetic, and more relentless than Berenson's version, this performance is so powerful and gripping that it is one of the highlights of the series. Lisa Banes is splendid as Martha Gelhorn, the independent and ruthless third wife who dumped her trophy husband when it suited her. Finally, Pamela Reed as the devoted fourth wife Mary Welsh brings just the right delicate touch to her role. There is a very powerful brief supporting performance by Ana Torent as Adriana, a girl Hemingway falls for in Venice. This series has endeavoured conscientiously to be as faithful as it could to the truth of events, which is a tall order! The first part in Paris and Spain goes out of its way to be fair to Harold Loeb (well played by Jerry di Giacomo), having clearly drawn on his memoir giving the truth about 'The Sun Also Rises'. Kitty Canell is well played by Consuelo de Haviland, and Pat Guthrie by Richard de Burnchurch (exactly as one would have imagined him). Fiona Fullerton does moderately well as Lady Duff Twysden (whose name is mispronounced however), though no actress could be expected in a mere cameo to capture the real Duff sufficiently. Dudley Sutton and James Villiers provide particularly good support as minor characters. The only person in the story whom I knew personally was Ezra Pound, and he is portrayed completely wrong by Geoffrey Carey, which was very bad casting, and anyway he was only on film for less than a minute, so no care was taken over it. Sylvia Beach's Bookshop in Paris is lovingly recreated, which was quite a feat. Tremendous effort went into this eminently successful series, which cannot be recommended highly enough for its quality and accuracy. I was very sad at seeing the scenes in the Mayo Clinic near the end, realizing that I was one of the last people Hemingway ever wrote a letter to (from there), and appreciating only now just how much that brief letter to a schoolboy must have cost him in effort, and just how deeply it represented all that was good, brave, and noble about that deeply troubled man tormented all his life by his demons, but retaining his core of honesty and generosity of spirit.

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