The Browning Version is a 1994 film directed by Mike Figgis and starring Albert Finney. It is a remake of the 1951 film. Both films are based on the 1948 play by Terence Rattigan.
Andrew Crocker-Harris (Albert Finney) is an embittered and disliked teacher of Greek and Latin at a British Public 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 ...
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The Browning Version is a 1994 film directed by Mike Figgis and starring Albert Finney. It is a remake of the 1951 film. Both films are based on the 1948 play by Terence Rattigan.
Andrew Crocker-Harris (Albert Finney) is an embittered and disliked teacher of Greek and Latin at a British Public 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 justification. His wife Laura (Greta Scacchi) 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.
The film was nominated for the Palme d'Or (Golden Palm) award at the Cannes Film Festival and won the Best Actor (Albert Finney) Award at the Boston Society of Film Critics Awards in 1994. In 1995 it was nominated for the Best Screenplay of the BAFTA Awards.
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