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Screen cap from opening credits
Adaptation of
Saraband for Dead Lovers
1935
single work
novel
Issue Details:
First known date:
1948...
1948
Saraband for Dead Lovers
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Film Details - Ealing Studios , 1948
Producers:
Michael Balcon (Producer)
Michael Relph (Associate Producer)
Production Companies:
Ealing Studios
Director of Photography:
Douglas Slocombe
Editors:
Michael Truman
Production Designers:
William Kellner
Jim Morahan
Composer:
Alan Rawsthorne
Cast:
Incl. Stewart Granger (Count Philip Konigsmark), Joan Greenwood (Sophie Dorothea), Flora Robson (Countess Clara Platen), Françoise Rosay (The Electress Sophia), Frederick Valk (The Elector Ernest Augustus), Peter Bull (Prince George Louis), Anthony Quayle (Durer), Michael Gough (Prince Charles), Megs Jenkins (Frau Busche), Jill Balcon (Knesbeck), David Horne (Duke George William), Mercia Swinburne (Countess Eleanore). For further cast details see the International Movie Database entry.
Release Dates:
1. Premiered in London (England) on 8 September 1948. Released commercially in the UK on 4 October 1948. Later released in Sweden (6 December 1948), Finland (6 May 1949), USA (11 June 1949 - New York City), Denmark (6 October 1949), West Germany (25 November 1949), and Austria (13 December 1949).
2. Released on videocassette format in the UK by Lumiere and in Australia by Polygram Video (ca. 1990s).
Location:
- Filmed largely at the Ealing Studios, London (UK).
Awards:
- Academy Awards (1950), Best Art Direction: Set Decoration, Color - Jim Morahan, William Kellner and Michael Relph (nominated)
Notes:
1. Also known as Saraband (Sweden and USA); Kærlighed og Kårde (Denmark); Königsliebe (West Germany); La Prisionera del Castillo (Argentina); Matrimonio de Estado (Spain); Sarabanda Tragica (Italy); Sydämen Yksinäisyys (Finland); Tödliche Liebe (Austria).
