1954 · romance · drama · cold-war
The Young Lovers
Directed by Anthony Asquith1h 36m1954
A young employee of the British State Department falls in love with the daughter of a top Russian diplomat, much to the panic of their respective countries' officials, who suspect espionage. The cast includes David Knight, Odile Versois, Theodore Bikel and David Kossoff.
Our read: The Young Lovers (1954) reads as a sombre, kinetic, grounded romance · drama · cold-war entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, kinetic, measured romance / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
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