For 16 years Miss Bentley has been spending April at an elegant hillside villa on Lake Como. This year, 1937, her London society artist father has recently died and the only other English-speaking guests are brash Americans. Then Major Wilshaw arrives. He suggests they meet for cocktails and Miss Bentley stands him up -- not even thinking about it -- as she helps the new nanny of an Italian family settle in. Miss Beaumont, a tall, young American who has dropped out of finishing school in Switzerland, is bored and finds some amusement in flirting with the major, whose libido is awakened for the first time since before the great war. And Miss Bentley now finds more about the major to admire than his ears.
Sound | Nicola Piovani | Music |
Directing | John Irvin | Director |
Writing | Trevor Bentham | Writer |
Lighting | Fiorangelo Plocco | Gaffer |
Writing | H. E. Bates | Novel |
Costume & Make-Up | Stefania Svizzeretto | Assistant Costume Designer |
Art | Mauro Passi | Art Direction |
Crew | Paulo Camelli | Scenic Artist |
Production | Rita Forzano | Casting |
Costume & Make-Up | Nilo Jacoponi | Makeup Artist |
Costume & Make-Up | Sergio Gennari | Hairstylist |
Production | Robert Fox | Producer |
Sound | David Novack | Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
Camera | Marco Pontecorvo | Camera Operator |
Art | Gianni Giovagnoni | Production Design |
Writing | Josep Llurba | Adaptation |
Costume & Make-Up | Lia Francesca Morandini | Costume Design |
Directing | Francesca Ghiotto | Script Supervisor |
Costume & Make-Up | Maria De Angelis Olivieri | Seamstress |
Camera | Pasqualino De Santis | Director of Photography |
Sound | Otto Snel | Sound Re-Recording Mixer |
Editing | Peter Tanner | Editor |
Sound | Les Wiggins | Sound Editor |
Sound | Archie Ludski | ADR & Dubbing |
Sound | Robin Clarke | Music Editor |
Sound | David Crozier | Sound Mixer |
Production | Donna Gigliotti | Executive Producer |
Production | Harvey Weinstein | Executive Producer |
Production | Bob Weinstein | Executive Producer |