Based on the life of the young Guy Burgess, who would become better known as one of the Cambridge Spies.
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Title: Another Country (1984)
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Cast
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| Rupert Everett | ... | Guy Bennett | |
| Colin Firth | ... | Tommy Judd | |
| Michael Jenn | ... | Barclay | |
| Robert Addie | ... | Delahay | |
| Rupert Wainwright | ... | Devenish | |
| Tristan Oliver | ... | Fowler | |
| Cary Elwes | ... | Harcourt | |
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Frederick Alexander | ... | Menzies |
| Adrian Ross Magenty | ... | Wharton | |
| Geoffrey Bateman | ... | Yevgeni | |
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Phillip Dupuy | ... | Martineau |
| Guy Henry | ... | Head Boy | |
| Jeffry Wickham | ... | Arthur (as Jeffrey Wickham) | |
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John Line | ... | Best Man |
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Gideon Boulting | ... | Trafford |
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Based on the award winning play by Julian Mitchell, the film explores the effect of Public School life in the 1930's on Guy Burgess as his homosexuality and unwillingness to "play the game" turns him eastwards towards communist Russia. Written by Craig Wood <cew@jiffi.demon.co.uk>
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gay | teenage crush | dating | guy burgess character | harrow school london england |Taglines:
A convention outraged. A class abandoned. A country betrayed. See more »Parents Guide:
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Guy Bennett: How many is that?
Judd: Twelve. Twelve torches taken away to stop me getting the education I'm supposed to be here for.
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Lyrics by Sir Cecil Spring-Rice
Music by Gustav Holst
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Eton College reportedly declined to allow filming at the school. See more »Goofs
When the cadets are on parade in the school quadrangle, the statue of a man in seventeenth-century dress identifies their location as the courtyard of the Bodleian Library, on the campus of Oxford University. See more »Quotes
Judd: Barclay confiscated another torch last night.Guy Bennett: How many is that?
Judd: Twelve. Twelve torches taken away to stop me getting the education I'm supposed to be here for.
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I Vow to Thee, My CountryLyrics by Sir Cecil Spring-Rice
Music by Gustav Holst
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June 1984 (UK) See more »Also Known As:
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I saw this movie again the other day and am impressed at how well it has held up. Though it's a little hard to follow the arcane hierarchies of 1930s British public school life, that is precisely the point-- these people are suffocating in the meaningless rituals of their class. Rupert Everett and Colin Firth give outstanding performances as the openly gay and communist members of their school, and the unfolding of the relationship between Everett and Cary Elwes is some of the most romantic footage I've ever seen. Though very few of us live in such a stratified social climate these days, we would do well to understand the webs of hierarchy and ritual that bind us all in one way or another.