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
James Ivory
Director
Henry James
Writer
Christine Fox
Second Assistant Director
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Writer
Don Carpentier
Property Master
Ismail Merchant
Producer
Bob Jones
Sound Engineer
Richard Robbins
Composer
Doug E. Turner
Sound Engineer
Larry Pizer
Cinematographer
Jenny Beavan
Costume Assistant
Brian Rose
Clapper Loader
Humphrey Dixon
Editor
Judy Abbott
CastingDirector
Jeanne Richmond
Makeup Artist
Jeremiah Rusconi
Art Direction
Peter Kean
Unit Manager
Keith Morton
Wardrobe Master
Mikki Ansin
Still Photographer
Joyce Herlihy
Production Manager
James Maniolas
Assistant Director
Jim Walsh
Best Boy Grip
Judy Moorcroft
Costume Design
Marianne Grigg
Makeup Artist
Ken Nightingall
Boom Operator
Martin Samuel
Hairstylist
Mark Potter Jr.
Assistant Editor
Derek Ball
Sound
Jeremy Mitford
Property Master
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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.