Wind from the Icy Country is a 1964 Australian television play directed by Patrick Barton and starring Norman Kaye.
Premise A German engineer, Ehrbar, who worked in China during the war encounters a Jewish doctor in an isolated Chinese mountain village in Paoshan, in the northwest. Ehrbar breaks down in a car with his companion, Ella, who is fleeing an unhappy marriage.
Cast
Production Robert Amos adapted his radio play. Amos described the story as a drama on conscience in the style of Kafka.
Reception The TV critic for The Sydney Morning Herald thought that it proved that "when a play is completely focused on the working out of intense human conflicts at close range, television proves to be an excellent medium... Brian James made the doctor into a tragic and moving figure consumed by the torture of past experience."
References
External links Wind from the Icy Country at IMDb Wind from the Icy Country at National Film and Sound Archive