The Cold Room
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| Directed by | James Dearden |
| Produced by |
Mark Forstater Bob Weiss |
| Written by |
James Dearden Novel: Jeffrey Caine |
| Starring |
George Segal Amanda Pays Renee Soutendijk Warren Clarke Anthony Higgins Elizabeth Spriggs Clifford Rose |
| Music by | Michael Nyman |
| Cinematography | Tony Pierce-Roberts |
| Edited by | Mick Audsley |
| Distributed by | HBO |
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Release date
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24 March 1984 |
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Running time
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95 minutes |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Language | English |
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| Soundtrack album by Michael Nyman | ||||
| Released | 1995 | |||
| Recorded | 1984 | |||
| Genre | Contemporary classical music, film scores, minimalism | |||
| Length | 35:11 | |||
| Label | Silva America | |||
| Producer |
Michael Nyman Ford A. Thaxton |
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The Cold Room is a 1984 cable television film by James Dearden.
Based on an eponymous 1978 science fiction novel by Jeffrey Caine, the film stars George Segal, Amanda Pays (in her film debut), Anthony Higgins, Renée Soutendijk, and Warren Clarke. The original film score is by Michael Nyman. It was a production of MCEG/Sterling Entertainment and released on VHS by Charter Entertainment.
Carla Martin (Amanda Pays) is leaving an English parochial boarding school for the summer to live with her estranged father at an inn in East Berlin. The headmistress (Ursula Howells), a nun, gives her a 1936 guide to Berlin, telling her she may find it useful, even though Berlin has surely changed as much as she has. Her best friend, Sophie (Lucy Hornack), gives her a bag of marijuana.
Hugh Martin (George Segal), her father, who lives on Central Park West, greets her at the Berlin Airport, surprised at how grown she looks. Carla is a bit embarrassed that he has given her a teddy bear, as she is nearly seventeen years old. She addresses him on a first name basis, and a camera pan reveals that he just bought the teddy bear at the airport. As they cross through the Berlin Wall, Carla is terrified that she will be personally searched and caught with drugs.
Hugh has a thirty-year-old girlfriend named Lili (Renée Soutendijk), who recommends Frau Hoffman's (Elizabeth Spriggs) inn because of the local character being significant to Hugh's historical research. Carla is convinced that there are rats behind the wall and wants to leave. Hugh has Frau Hoffman humour her and show her that there is merely a broom closet next door, though that room is not deep enough to convince her. Hugh insists it's probably just part of the next room.
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