- Status: Completed
- Score: 7/10
- Director: Charles Dance
- Country: UK
- Year: 2004
- Duration: 104 min
- Genres: Drama,Music,Romance,
- Production:
Two sisters befriend a mysterious foreigner who washes up on the beach of their 1930s Cornish seaside village.
Taking place in pre-World War II England, aging sisters Ursula (Dame Judi Dench) and Janet (Dame Maggie Smith) live peacefully in their cottage on the shore of Cornwall. One morning following a violent storm, the sisters spot from their garden a nearly-drowned man lying on the beach. They nurse him back to health and discover that he is Polish. Communicating in broken German while they teach him English, they learn his name is Andrea (Daniel Brühl) and that he is a particularly gifted violinist. His boat was on its way to America, where he is headed to look for a better life. It doesn’t take long for them to become attached to Andrea, and they dote on him. Other townspeople, however, have their suspicions, especially when he befriends a Russian woman, Olga (Natascha McElhone).
Judi Dench, Daniel Brühl, Gregor Henderson-Begg, David Warner, Richard Pears, Iain Marshall, Trevor Ray, Joanna Dickens, Maggie Smith, Freddie Jones, Miriam Margolyes, Clive Russell, Natascha McElhone, Toby Jones, John Boswall,
