Insurance man: A dye worker, dismissed from his job because of a suspicious rash, finds himself caught up in the nightmarish bureaucracy of an insurance company, one of whose employees is Franz Kafka. Dinner at noon: Film essay in which Alan Bennett observes the activities of staff and guests at the
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Insurance man: A dye worker, dismissed from his job because of a suspicious rash, finds himself caught up in the nightmarish bureaucracy of an insurance company, one of whose employees is Franz Kafka. Dinner at noon: Film essay in which Alan Bennett observes the activities of staff and guests at the Crown Hotel in Harrogate while reminiscing about his Yorkshire childhood. 102 Boulevard Haussmann: A dramatisation of some incidents in the life of Marcel Proust.
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Statement of Responsibility:
BBC
Title:
The Alan Bennett collection
Disc 3
[videorecording]
Publisher:
[England] :, 2 Entertain ;, Burbank, Calif. :, Distributed in USA and Canada by Warner Home Video,, [2011]
Characteristics:
1 videodisc (185 min.) :,sd., col. ;,4 3/4 in.
Notes:
Title from container
Part of a 4-disc set
Special features on disc 4
Contents:
The insurance man / director, Richard Eyre ; producer, Innes Lloyd (1986)
Dinner at noon / director, Jonathan Stedall ; producer, Jonathan Stedall (1988)
102 Boulevard Haussmann / a co-production of BBC-TV and La Sept in association with Cameras Continentales ; directors, David Hinton and Udayan Prasad ; producer, Innes Lloyd (1990)
Credits:
Music, George Fenton, David Fanshaw, Ilona Sekacz.
Performers:
The insurance man: Daniel Day Lewis; Robert Hines; Geoffrey Palmer; Alan MacNaughtan; Jim Broadbent
Dinner at noon: Alan Bennett
102 Boulevard Haussmann: Alan Bates, Janet McTeer.
Summary:
Insurance man: A dye worker, dismissed from his job because of a suspicious rash, finds himself caught up in the nightmarish bureaucracy of an insurance company, one of whose employees is Franz Kafka. Dinner at noon: Film essay in which Alan Bennett observes the activities of staff and guests at the Crown Hotel in Harrogate while reminiscing about his Yorkshire childhood. 102 Boulevard Haussmann: A dramatisation of some incidents in the life of Marcel Proust.
Audience:
CHV rating PG
System Details:
DVD9; NTSC; mono/stereo audio track; fullscreen 4:3
Other Language:
Subtitled for the deaf and hard of hearing
Subject Headings:
Workers' compensation Drama
Kafka, Franz, 1883-1924 Drama
Bennett, Alan, 1934- Childhood and youth
Proust, Marcel, 1871-1922 Drama
Genre/Form:
Feature films-lcgft
Short films-lcgft
Television movies-gsafd
Video recordings for the hearing impaired-lcgft
Topical Term:
Workers' compensation
Additional Contributors:
Bennett, Alan
- 1934-
Eyre, Richard
- 1943-
Lloyd, Innes
Stedall, Jonathan
Hinton, David
Prasad, Udayan
Bates, Alan
- 1934-2003
Day-Lewis, Daniel
McTeer, Janet
Broadbent, Jim
Palmer, Geoffrey
- 1927-
Publisher No:
2000047847
ISBN:
9780780661615
0780661613
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