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Quartet

on BBC Two England

continues a season of films new to television.
Tonight starring Alan Bates, Maggie Smith, Isabelle Adjani, Anthony Higgins.

Paris, 1927. With her husband jailed for art trafficking, the rootless, penniless and beautiful Marya is taken in by an expatriate English couple, H.J. and Lois Heidler. But it proves to be a menage filled with sexual tensions and desperate passion.

This exotic period drama is by the acclaimed team responsible for "Heat and Dust" and "A Room with a View".

(First showing on British television)
(In The Picture: page 29)

Contributors

Screenwriter:
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Author:
Jean Rhys
Producer:
Ismail Merchant
Producer:
Jean Pierre Mahot de la Querantonnais
Director:
James Ivory
H.J. Heidler:
Alan Bates
Lois Heidler:
Maggie Smith
Marya Zelli:
Isabelle Adjani
Stephen Zelli:
Anthony Higgins
Theo:
Pierre Clementi
Pierre:
Daniel Mesguich
Mlle Chardin:
Virginie Thevenet
Mme Hautchamp:
Suzanne Flon
M. Hautchamp:
Sebastien Floche
Anna:
Sheila Gish
Guy:
Daniel Chatto

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