Project Detail

A Restless Content

Name: A Restless Content
Director: Jan Leman
Released: 1998
Duration: 29 mins

Synopsis

From 'hot summer sex' in Majorca, to 'moral economics' in Scotland. To celebrate his 70th birthday, the acclaimed Scots-born writer and poet Alastair Reid reflects on life at the prestigious New Yorker Magazine and his unique friendship with Robert Graves, Jorge Luis Borges and Pablo Neruda.

Details

Year: 1998
Running time: 29 mins
Format: 16mm Kodak
Director: Jan Leman
Producer: May Miller for BBC Scotland
Executive Producer: May Miller for BBC Scotland
Director of Photography: Ross Keith and Gary Morrison
Principal cast: Alastair Reid, Bill Buford, Stephanie Wolfe-Murray and Alan Taylor
Screen Writer: Alan Taylor

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Leman Productions Ltd 9 Morningside Terrace, Edinburgh EH10 5HG Tel/Fax: 0131 447 1082 E Mail: leman@mailbox.co.uk

Sales Company

Rona Unrau Expicturis Distribution Fidicinstrasse 40, Berlin 10965, Germany

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