Information
- BFI identifier444
- Date1983-05-06 (Release)
- Production countryUnited Kingdom
- Production company
- SynopsisThe story of a young working-class woman with a burning desire for education. She enrols in an Open University literature course and is taken under the reluctant wing of her tutor, a semi-alcoholic English professor. (Synopsis)
- Genre
- Subject
- CreditsDirector: Lewis Gilbert
Production Company: Acorn Pictures
Executive Producer: Herbert L. Oakes
view all - CastMichael Caine (Dr Frank Bryant)
Julie Walters ('Rita', Susan)
Michael Williams (Brian)
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Title
Educating Rita (Original)
EIDR identifier
10.5240/96A6-C63E-0998-AFE1-504D-5Category
FictionThis work is included in the BFI Filmography.
- Collections
- Film / Video
35mm Colour Positive - CTA - Combined - Viewing
view all - Scripts / DocumentsScript - Original story: Play by Willy Russell - SCR-7328
Ephemera: publicity - PBS-444
Small pressbook held.
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Photograph: transparency - Landscape - Colour - bfi-00n-fd7
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view all - Articles
- Digital documentsBFI Southbank Programme Notes May 2015
available to view in BFI Reuben Library
- +Educating Rita
Work - 444 - 1983-05-06 (Release)
United Kingdom - Film - Fiction
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