September is a German-British made-for-television drama film of 1996 directed by Colin Bucksey, based on a novel of the same name by Rosamunde Pilcher.

Plot The action takes place at Strathcroy in the Scottish Highlands, where Verena Steynton is holding a party for her daughter, with many upper-class guests. These include Pandora, who vanished twenty years before, her brother Lord Archie Balmerino, and Edmund Aird, a rich business man, and his American wife. And then a dead body is found in the loch.

Cast Jenny Agutter as Isobel Balmerino "September. Drama, GB 96", Zitty, Volume 33, Issues 9-12 (Zitty Verlag GmbH, 2009), p. 168 Michael York as Edmund Aird Jacqueline Bisset as Pandora Balmerino Judy Parfitt as Verena Steynton Edward Fox as Lord Archie Balmerino Mariel Hemingway as Virginia Virginia McKenna as Violet Aird Emily Hamilton as Alexa Aird Paul Guilfoyle as Conrad Tucker Angela Pleasence as Lottie Carstairs Anna Cropper as Edie Jesse Birdsall as Neil Mark Lambert as George Derry Power as Barman

Production The film was produced by a partnership of the German television company ZDF, which had bought the film rights to all of Pilcher’s work, and BSkyB. It was filmed in Scotland in the summer of 1995.Deborah Cartmell, Imelda Whelehan, The Cambridge Companion to Literature on Screen (Cambridge University Press, 2007), p. 134

See also Rosamunde Pilcher (Filmreihe), on the German Wikipedia

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