Five Days One Summer

Five Days One Summer
	Film poster
Directed by	Fred Zinnemann
Produced by	Peter Beale; Fred Zinnemann
Written by	Michael Austin; Kay Boyle
Starring	Sean Connery; Betsy Brantley; Lambert Wilson; Gérard Buhr; Isabel Dean; Jennifer Hilary; Anna Massey; Sheila Reid;
Music by	Elmer Bernstein
Cinematography	Giuseppe Rotunno
Edited by	Stuart Baird
Distributed by	Warner Bros.
Release date	November 12, 1982;
Running time	96 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Budget	$15 million
Box office	$199,078

Five Days One Summer is a 1982 American drama film directed by Fred Zinnemann and starring Sean Connery.[1] It was the last film that Zinnemann directed.

Plot

Douglas Meredith, a middle-aged Scottish doctor is on vacation in the Alps in 1932 with a young woman, Kate, whom he introduces as his wife. Douglas has brought Kate to the Alps for a mountain climbing trip. Douglas and Kate are absorbed with a psychological melancholy. Through flashbacks, it is revealed that Kate has been in love with Douglas since she was a young girl and that she had seduced him away from another woman. The flashbacks also reveal that Kate is actually his niece. But then, in their mountain retreat, a handsome climbing guide appears and develops an attraction for Kate. A love triangle ensues, but in the end, during a mountaineering trip, only one man comes down safely while the other falls to his death. Either one's demise means enormous tears for Kate. But which one survives?

Cast

Sean Connery as Douglas Meredith
Betsy Brantley as Kate
Lambert Wilson as Johann Biari
Jennifer Hilary as Sarah Meredith
Isabel Dean as Kate's Mother
Gérard Buhr as Brendel
Anna Massey as Jennifer Pierce
Sheila Reid as Gillian Pierce

Reception

The film was a critical and commercial disaster. Zinnemann remarked "I'm not saying it was a good picture, but there was a degree of viciousness in the reviews. The pleasure some people took in tearing down the film really hurt".[2] He never made another film after that.

References

Maslin, Janet. "New York Times: Five Days One Summer". NY Times. Retrieved July 20, 2008.
Gritten, David. "A Lion in His Winter : At 85, Fred Zinnemann looks back on a life in film; his anecdote-rich autobiography earns the rave reviews his last movie didn't". LA Times. Retrieved October 5, 2013.

External links

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[NY_Times-1] Maslin, Janet. "New York Times: Five Days One Summer". NY Times. Retrieved July 20, 2008.

[LA_Times-2] Gritten, David. "A Lion in His Winter : At 85, Fred Zinnemann looks back on a life in film; his anecdote-rich autobiography earns the rave reviews his last movie didn't". LA Times. Retrieved October 5, 2013.