ACROSS THE RIVER

By Paula ORTIZ

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Book adaptation - Completed 2021

Colonel Richard Cantwell, wounded and damaged by the war, seeks inner peace.

    • Year of production
    • 2021
    • Genres
    • Book adaptation, Drama
    • Countries
    • ITALY, UNITED KINGDOM
    • Languages
    • ENGLISH, ITALIAN
    • Duration
    • 113 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Paula ORTIZ
    • Writer(s)
    • Peter FLANNERY
    • Producer(s)
    • Robert MACLEAN (Tribune Picture), Ken GORD (Tribune Picture)
    • Synopsis
    • Set in Italy during WWII, American Army Col. Richard Cantwell, is a bona fide war hero who faces news of his terminal illness with stoic disregard. Determined to spend his weekend in quiet solitude, he commandeers a military driver to facilitate what is likely a final duck hunting trip and visit to his old haunts in Venice. As Cantwell’s plans begin to unravel, a chance encounter with a young countess begins to kindle in him the hope of renewal. Based on the last full-length novel Hemingway published in his lifetime, ACROSS THE RIVER AND INTO THE TREES captures a fleeting moment of immortality where time stands still. The story contains the great Hemingway themes of love, war, youth and age.