Enchanted April

Enchanted April (1991)

Timing: 1:29 (89 min)

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Release date

1991-11-06

Country

United Kingdom

Production

Miramax, BBC Film, Greenpoint Films

Genre

Romance, Drama

Budget

$0

Revenue

$13 200 170

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Director

Mike Newell

Actors

Miranda Richardson, Josie Lawrence, Polly Walker, Joan Plowright, Alfred Molina, Michael Kitchen, Jim Broadbent, Neville Phillips, Stephen Beckett, Matthew Radford
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Scenario

Peter Barnes

Producer

Ann Scott, Mark Shivas, Simon Relph

Operator

Rex Maidment

Composer

Richard Rodney Bennett

Artist

Audition

Editing

Dick Allen
All team (37)

• The scenes in Italy were filmed in Portofino (a small fishing town in the province of Genoa), in the same castle where Elizabeth von Arnim (1886-1941) lived in the 1920s while working on the novel of the same name, which served as the literary basis for the script.
• In Italy, the film was shot in a castle located high above the harbor, and there was no normal road to it. Every morning, the actors and crew members had to climb more than a kilometer up the mountainside – and with filming equipment – and descend in the evenings. There was only one lift available, but it was permitted for use by only one lady, Joan Plourait.
• Of the entire cast and crew of the film, only Alfred Molina spoke Italian, and consequently, during the filming in Italy, only he could freely communicate with Italian actors and locals. The result was that he became the translator for the entire creative team of the film.