Another Country

1984
PG
1h 30m

IMDb RATING

7.0/10

7.2K

YOUR RATING

Colin Firth and Rupert Everett in Another Country (1984)

Based on the life of the young Guy Burgess, who would become better known as one of the Cambridge Spies.

Play trailer2:36

1 Video

31 Photos

Biography Drama Romance

Based on the life of the young Guy Burgess, who would become better known as one of the Cambridge Spies.Based on the life of the young Guy Burgess, who would become better known as one of the Cambridge Spies.Based on the life of the young Guy Burgess, who would become better known as one of the Cambridge Spies.

See production info at IMDbPro

IMDb RATING

7.0/10

7.2K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Nominated for 3 BAFTA Awards
- 1 win & 4 nominations total

Videos1

Trailer 2:36

Trailer

Photos31

+ 24

More like this

7.6

Maurice

6.8

A Month in the Country

7.2

7.4

6.9

7.1

7.5

5.5

7.1

7.6

6.9

6.3

Storyline

Edit

Did you know

Edit

Trivia
Loosely based on the early life of Guy Burgess, a key figure in the Cambridge Five spy ring of the 1930s and 1940s, who eventually defected to Russia in 1951. Even the manner of "Guy Bennett"'s father's death, as he discloses it to Harcourt, is the same as Burgess's father. Even so, the closing credits make the standard declaration, "The events, characters and firms depicted in this photoplay are fictitious. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, or to actual firms is purely coincidental."

Goofs
When the cadets are on parade in the school quadrangle, the statue of a man in seventeenth-century dress identifies their location as the courtyard of the Bodleian Library, on the campus of Oxford University.

Quotes
Fowler: I have half a mind to ask Barclay for permission to beat you!
Tommy Judd: Well, you've half a mind. We can all agree on that.

Connections
Featured in The Celluloid Closet (1995)

Soundtracks
I Vow to Thee, My Country
Lyrics by Sir Cecil Spring-Rice
Music by Gustav Holst

User reviews50

Review

Featured review

10/10

Truly brilliant, although quintessentially English

I was living in France when this film was first released. I had seen the stage play and thoroughly enjoyed it. The film was so good I actually saw it twice over it's opening weekend.

The bulk of the action is set in an English boarding school in the 1930s. This is marvelously portrayed - school bullies, inter house rivalries, the cadet force, cricket - and there is some marvelous interaction between Rupert Everett and Colin Firth. The latter's impassioned defence of Stalin is understated comedy at its finest.

This is a film of great subtlety and beauty, well acted, and underpinned by a haunting soundtrack.