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1945
Brief Encounter is a 1945 British romantic tragedy film directed by David Lean from a screenplay by Noël Coward, based on his 1936 one-act play Still Life. The film stars Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard in lead roles, alongside Stanley Holloway, Joyce Carey, Cyril Raymond, Everley Gregg and Margaret Barton.
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People usually associate David Lean with "larger-than-life" film spectacles like *The Bridge on the River Kwai*, *Lawrence of Arabia* and *Doctor Zhivago*. However, the most beloved of all his films isn't among that group—it is *Brief Encounter*, a relatively cheap, black-and-white and seemingly unattractive 1945 melodrama about the most prosaic characters imaginable, set in the most prosaic surroundings, so differe…More
