Accident
– Stephen is a professor at Oxford University who is caught in a rut and feels trapped by his life in ..
Stephen is a professor at Oxford University who is caught in a rut and feels trapped by his life in both academia and marriage. One of his students, William, is engaged to the beautiful Anna, and Stephen becomes enamored of the younger woman. These three people become linked together by a horrible car crash, with flashbacks providing details into the lives of each person and their connection to the others in this brooding English drama.
07 Jun 1967
English
Joseph Losey
Nicholas Mosley (from the novel by), Harold Pinter (screenplay)
Dirk Bogarde, Stanley Baker, Jacqueline Sassard, Michael York
The Oxford professor of philosophy Stephen has two favorite pupils, the athletic aristocrat William and the Austrian Anna von Graz. Stephen is a frustrated man, with a negligent wife, Rosalind, who is pregnant of their third child, and is envious of the Oxford professor Charley that has a television show. Stephen feels attracted to Anna, but William woos her and she becomes his girlfriend. Charley has a love affair with Anna but when things go wrong, Anna must leave town.
Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 5 wins & 6 nominations.
$17,161
Rialto Pictures