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Enchanted April (Original title)
Dates: 1991 (Release), 05 April 1992 (Television)

Country: United Kingdom

Director: Mike Newell

Synopsis: Period TV drama set in the early 1920s. Lotty Wilkins persuades her friend Rose Arbuthnot to join her in renting a castle in Italy. To help share the expense they advertise for two others and find themselves on holiday with the beautiful and rich Caroline Dester and the elderly Mrs Fisher.

Genre:
Drama

Series title:

TV Transmissions
Date: 05 April 1992Broadcast channel: BBC2Country: United KingdomTransmission time: 22:00-23:40Slot duration: 100 minsNetwork - Language: English - Colour - Sound
Date: 14 March 1993Broadcast company: BBCCountry: United KingdomNetwork
Date: 06 August 1994Broadcast channel: BBC2Country: United Kingdom

Credits (31)
Production Company: BBC Films, In association with: Miramax Films, Greenpoint Films, Executive Producer: Mark Shivas, Executive Producer: Simon Relph, Producer: Ann Scott, Production Associate: Matthew Hamilton, Location Manager: Terry Wright, Production Assistant: Pauline Bullock-Webster, Assistant Director: Mervyn Gill-Dougherty, 2nd Assistant Director: Melanie Panario, Jessica Nettleton, Casting: Susie Figgis, Screenplay: Peter Barnes, Based on the novel by: Elizabeth Von Arnim, Director of Photography: Rex Maidment, Camera Assistant: Keith Broome, Visual Effects Designer: Colin Mapson, Graphics Designer: Roz Dallas, Editor: Dick Allen, [Editor]: George Akers, Production Designer: Malcolm Thornton, Design Assistant: Anna Dargavel, Costume Designer: Sheena Napier, Make-up Design: Deanne Turner, Music: Richard Rodney Bennett, Sound Recording: John Pritchard, Sound Re-recording: Peter Maxwell, Sound Editor: David Sleight, Sound Editor: Robyn Rogers
Cast (14)
Josie Lawrence (Lotty Wilkins), Miranda Richardson (Rose Arbuthnot), Alfred Molina (Mellersh Wilkins), Jim Broadbent (Frederick Arbuthnot), Michael Kitchen (George Briggs), Joan Plowright (Mrs Fisher), Polly Walker (Caroline Dester), Stephen Beckett (Jonathan), Matthew Radford (Patrick), Davide Manuli (Beppo), Vittorio Duse (Domenico), Adriana Facchetti (Francesca), Anna Longhi (Costanza), Neville Phillips (vicar)