Wind from the Icy Country

Wind from the Icy Country is a 1964 Australian television play directed by Patrick Barton and starring Norman Kaye.^[4]

Wind from the Icy Country
Based on	play by Robert Amos
Directed by	Patrick Barton
Country of origin	Australia
Original language	English
Production
Running time	65 mins
Production company	ABC
Original release
Release	19 August 1964 (1964-08-19) (Melbourne)[1]
Release	30 September 1964 (1964-09-30)[2]
Release	16 September 1964 (1964-09-16) (Brisbane)[3]

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

• Brian James as Rachmann
• Norman Kaye as Ehrbar
• Patsy King as Ella
• Kurt Ludescher as Captain Kang
• Neil Curnow as lt Mah
• Dawn Klinberg
• Roly Barlee
• Ray Angel
• Joseph Szabo
• Douglas Kelly
• Clen Farmer
• Blaise Anthony

Production

Robert Amos adapted his radio play. Amos described the story as a drama on conscience in the style of Kafka.^[5]

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."^[6]