The Europeans (1979)
May 1, 1979Release Date
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Cast & Crew.
Lee Remick
Eugenia Young
Robin Ellis
Robert Acton
Wesley Addy
Mr. Wentworth
Tim Choate
Clifford
Lisa Eichhorn
Gertrude
Kristin Griffith
Lizzie Acton
Nancy New
Charlotte
Norman Snow
Mr. Brand
Helen Stenborg
Mrs. Acton
Gedda Petry
Augustine
Tim Woodward
Felix Young
Judy Moorcroft
Costume Design
James Ivory
Director
Joyce Herlihy
Production Manager
Henry James
Writer
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Writer
Bob Jones
Sound Engineer
Ismail Merchant
Producer
Richard Robbins
Composer
Larry Pizer
Cinematographer
Jenny Beavan
Costume Assistant
Humphrey Dixon
Editor
Judy Abbott
CastingDirector
Connie Kaiserman
Associate Producer
Christopher Misiano
Grip
Martin Samuel
Hairstylist
Derek Ball
Sound
Ken Nightingall
Boom Operator
Ken Ferris
Focus Puller
Brian Blamey
Sound Editor
Jane Buck
Continuity
Peter Kean
Unit Manager
Doug E. Turner
Sound Engineer
Donald Newman
Gaffer
Christine Fox
Second Assistant Director
Jeanne Richmond
Makeup Artist
James Maniolas
Assistant Director
Mark Potter Jr.
Assistant Editor
Keith Morton
Wardrobe Master
Jeremiah Rusconi
Art Direction
Marianne Grigg
Makeup Artist
Don Carpentier
Property Master
Jeremy Mitford
Property Master
Mikki Ansin
Still Photographer
Jim Walsh
Best Boy Grip
Brian Rose
Clapper Loader
Christopher Cormack
Still Photographer
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The Europeans is a 1979 British Merchant Ivory film, directed by James Ivory, produced by Ismail Merchant, and with a screenplay by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, based on Henry James's novel The Europeans (1878). It stars Lee Remick, Robin Ellis, Tim Woodward and Lisa Eichhorn. It was the first of Merchant Ivory's triptych of Henry James adaptations. It was followed by The Bostonians in 1984 and The Golden Bowl in 2001.
The plot follows the interaction between two European siblings and their American cousins. Facing hard times in Europe, Eugenia, a Baroness by marriage, and her younger artistic brother arrived for the first time in New England in the 1850s to meet their wealthy maternal uncle and their three cousins, the Wentworths. Their bohemian sophistication and alien ways dazzle some of their puritanical American relations and arouse suspicion in others.
The Europeans was the first of Merchant Ivory's period dramas, the genre for which they would become best known. Made on a modest budget, it nonetheless featured lavish costumes and sets, with top actors portraying genteel characters who suffer from disillusionment and tragic entanglements.