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  • Actors: Peggy Ashcroft, Michael Kitchen, Wendy Raebeck, Michael Sheard, Louis Sheldon
  • Directors: Stephen Poliakoff
  • Format: PAL
  • Language English
  • Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
  • Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
  • Number of discs: 1
  • Classification: 15
  • Studio: 2 Entertain Video
  • DVD Release Date: 9 Feb 2004
  • Run Time: 81 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B0000AISIZ
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 14,396 in DVD (See Bestsellers in DVD)

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DVD Description
BAFTA Winner: Best Single Play. Starring Dame Peggy Ashcroft and Michael Kitchen with Wendy Raebeck.

Inspired by a journey the writer made as a young man, this drama has been acclaimed as a television masterpiece. As a young businessman travels through Germany on a crowded night train he encounters a demanding elderly Viennese lady in the same carriage. Over the course of one equally nightmarish and moving overnight journey, she has a profound and unsettling influence on the young Englishman.

Special Features

  • Commentary with Stephen Poliakoff and Kenith Trodd (Producer)
  • Interviews with Stephen Poliakoff and cast

DVD Technical Information:

  • Subtitles: English SDH
  • Audio: Stereo
  • Region Code: 2, 4
  • PAL
  • Aspect Ratio: 4:3
  • Disc Format: DVD-5
  • Running Time: 79 mins approx.


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25 of 26 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars Classic Poliakoff, 3 Mar 2004
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This, apparently, dated journey on a grubby trans European train will contrast starkly with its modern equivalent. Unless of course you’re a British rail commuter when it will seem bang up to date.
Peter, an arrogant ex public schoolboy, is travelling to a Linz book fair when he meets an American girl and hopes his luck is in. However, things are complicated by the arrival in the same compartment of Frau Messener, an elderly, once upper class, Austrian who matches Peters arrogance and surpasses it with her spoilt demands.
Dame Peggy Ashcroft, whose eyes are far to young for her ageing frame, wonderfully portrays the matriarch of a fallen race. The part of Peter, played by Michael Kitchen, seems to have been written for him. Anyone who travelled in Europe in the 70’s, encountering armed border guards who seem to be in training for the next Reich, will appreciate the undertones of paranoia.
Gritty, atmospheric and delivering a sense of frustration right to the fractured end when we glimpse the potential of empathy between Peter and Frau Messener, but tantalisingly never quite make it. Not everyone’s cup of tea, hence four stars, but never the less a classic Poliakoff.
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20 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars "I Think You're Sitting in My Seat", 27 Jan 2005
This made a big impression on me when I first saw it in the 80s and it was great to find it again. Poliakoff and director Peter Duffel make a number of subtle references to "The Lady Vanishes" and other train-based classics but in this film the corridors are crowded with obnoxious passengers, the staff surley and the officials intimidating. The train and its passengers serve as a metaphor for a Europe still fighting the cold war and living with political extremists from left and right.

The whole contrast between the old order of glamorous travel for a privalaged few and the new one of near anarchy is played out between Michael Kitchen and Peggy Ashcroft's characters. It is the character development rather than the twists of the plot that are the strong points of the movie. This would have been 5 stars but some people might be lulled by the background into expecting some kind of who-done-it. If you are willing simply enjoy the great acting and direction then this is a must-see.

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4.0 out of 5 stars o wow, 26 Nov 2007
i watched this at my uni library when i had a couple of hours free and i must say i was totally bowled over. i have never seen a piece of his work that i didnt like and this is no exception, cleverly written, interesting storyline and very real characters, isnt that the basis for any good film??
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