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*Wind from the Icy Country*
Wind from the Icy Country
Based on	play by Robert Amos
Directed by	Patrick Barton
Country of origin	Australia
Original language	English
Production
Running time	65 mins
Production company	ABC
Original release
Release	19 August 1964 (Melbourne)
Release	30 September 1964
Release	16 September 1964 (Brisbane)

Wind from the Icy Country is a 1964 Australian television play directed by Patrick Barton and starring Norman Kaye.^[4]

Premise

A German engineer, Ehrbar, who worked in China during the war encounters a Jewish doctor in an isolated Chinese mountain village in Paoshan, in the northwest. Ehrbar breaks down in a car with his companion, Ella, who is fleeing an unhappy marriage.

Cast

Brian James as Rachmann
Norman Kaye as Ehrbar
Patsy King as Ella
Kurt Ludescher as Captain Kang
Neil Curnow as lt Mah
Dawn Klinberg
Roly Barlee
Ray Angel
Joseph Szabo
Douglas Kelly
Clen Farmer
Blaise Anthony

Production

Robert Amos adapted his radio play. Amos described the story as a drama on conscience in the style of Kafka.^[5]

Reception

The TV critic for The Sydney Morning Herald thought that it proved that "when a play is completely focused on the working out of intense human conflicts at close range, television proves to be an excellent medium... Brian James made the doctor into a tragic and moving figure consumed by the torture of past experience."^[6]

References

^ "TV Guide". The Age. 13 August 1964. p. 35.
^ "WEDNESDAY". The Canberra Times. Vol. 39, no. 10, 962. Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 28 September 1964. p. 18. Retrieved 19 February 2017 – via National Library of Australia.
^ "Man on the RUn". TV Times. 9 September 1964. p. 15.
^ Vagg, Stephen (18 February 2019). "60 Australian TV Plays of the 1950s & '60s". Filmink.
^ "Drama of Conscience Leaves it to the Viewers". The Age. 13 August 1964. p. 26.
^ "Play from Melbourne". Sydney Morning Herald. 1 October 1964. p. 8.

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[1] "TV Guide". The Age. 13 August 1964. p. 35.

[2] "WEDNESDAY". The Canberra Times. Vol. 39, no. 10, 962. Australian Capital Territory, Australia. 28 September 1964. p. 18. Retrieved 19 February 2017 – via National Library of Australia.

[times-3] "Man on the RUn". TV Times. 9 September 1964. p. 15.

[4] Vagg, Stephen (18 February 2019). "60 Australian TV Plays of the 1950s & '60s". Filmink.

[5] "Drama of Conscience Leaves it to the Viewers". The Age. 13 August 1964. p. 26.

[6] "Play from Melbourne". Sydney Morning Herald. 1 October 1964. p. 8.

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