Brief Encounter
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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 Howa
Theatrical release poster
Laura (Celia Johnson) and Alec (Trevor Howard) say their penultimate goodbyes at the railway station
Jenny Seagrove and Nigel Havers rehearsing
David Lean
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Sir David Lean was an English filmmaker and editor, widely considered one of the most important figures of British cinema. He directed the large-scale epics The Bridge on the River Kwai, Lawrence of A
Brief Encounter
…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…
Lean in 1952
Lean in Northern Finland in 1965 while shooting Doctor Zhivago
Lean and Omar Sharif arriving to Joensuu, Finland, to shoot Doctor Zhivago, March 1965