The Remains of the day DVD 1993 Aterstoden av Dagen / Directed by James Ivory / Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Emma Thompson, James Fox, Christopher Reeve / 45 minute bonus material

UPC 5051162117513

REGION 2 PAL DVD 

MADE IN EU

AUDIO: English 5.1, French 2.1, Turkish 2.1, Italian 2.1, Spanish 2.1

SUBTITLES: English, French, German, Polish, Czech, Hungarian, Hindi, Turkish, Danish, Arabic, Bulgarian, Swedish, Finnish, Icelandic, Dutch, Norwegian, Portuguese, Greek, Hebrew, Spanish, Italian

Total Runtime: 129 minutes

English Summary:

The Remains of the Day is a 1993 British-American drama film and adapted from the Booker Prize-winning 1989 novel of the same name by Kazuo Ishiguro. The film was directed by James Ivory, produced by Ismail Merchant, Mike Nichols, and John Calley and adapted by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala. It stars Anthony Hopkins as James Stevens and Emma Thompson as Miss Kenton, with James Fox, Christopher Reeve, and Hugh Grant in supporting roles.

In 1958 post-war Britain, Stevens, the butler of Darlington Hall, receives a letter from Miss Kenton, a former colleague employed as the housekeeper some twenty years earlier, now separated from her husband. Their former employer, The Earl of Darlington, has died a broken man, his reputation destroyed after he was exposed as a Nazi sympathizer, and his stately country manor has been sold to a retired United States Congressman, Mr. Jack Lewis. Stevens is granted permission to borrow Lewis' Daimler, and he sets off to the West Country to see Miss Kenton, in the hope that she will return as housekeeper.

The film flashes back to Kenton's arrival as housekeeper in the 1930s. The ever-efficient Stevens manages the household well, taking great pride in and deriving his entire identity from his profession. Miss Kenton, too, proves to be a valuable servant, and she is equally efficient and strong-willed, but also warmer and less repressed. Stevens and Kenton occasionally butt heads, particularly when she observes that Stevens' father (also a former butler) is in failing health and no longer able to perform his duties, which Stevens stubbornly refuses to acknowledge. Stevens' professional dedication is fully displayed when, while his father lies dying, he steadfastly continues his butler duties.

Swedish Summary:

England på 1930- och 1950-talen. Butlern Stevens tjänstgör på lord Darlingtons slott, där lorden tar emot politiker från hela Europa. Lorden är övertygad om att Tyskland vill ha fred och gör sitt bästa för att få alla att inse det. Stevens har ett särskilt förhållande till miss Kenton. 

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