Five Days One Summer

1982
PG
1h 48m

IMDb RATING

6.1/10

1.4K

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Sean Connery, Betsy Brantley, and Lambert Wilson in Five Days One Summer (1982)

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Mountain Adventure Period Drama Drama

Sir Sean Connery stars in Fred Zinnemann's haunting tale of incestuous love set against a magnificent background of the Swiss Alps.Sir Sean Connery stars in Fred Zinnemann's haunting tale of incestuous love set against a magnificent background of the Swiss Alps.Sir Sean Connery stars in Fred Zinnemann's haunting tale of incestuous love set against a magnificent background of the Swiss Alps.

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IMDb RATING

6.1/10

1.4K

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See production info at IMDbPro

Trivia
Sir Sean Connery once described this movie's location work as "the most audacious piece of filmmaking I've ever been involved in. It was film production at the point of pioneering." Connery once recounted the worst moment he experienced while making this movie. Connery had to make a three hundred meter (three hundred twenty-eight yard) walk alone down a glacier known to be laden with crevasses hidden by a fresh snowfall and without safety markers. The marker poles were present during rehearsals, but were not there during filming, as they would be seen in the shot. Connery said, "Inches on either side of the path there were ninety foot caverns. I could hear the sound of ice moving underneath me, and behind me in the peaks, shifting all the time. That's the loneliest walk I've ever taken."

Quotes
Kate: What a beautiful view!
Brendel: This is the country of the beautiful view.

Alternate versions
Fred Zinnemann edited 11 minutes from this film for its 1987 CBS television network premiere.

Connections
Referenced in The King of Comedy (1982)

Soundtracks
Alexander's Ragtime Band
Composed by Irving Berlin

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Featured review

10/10

An Elegant Gem

This is a very fine movie. Maltin really misses it with his review. Fine acting by all of the major players. As at least one other reviewer pointed out, this is a finely crafted, minimalist production as far as the character dialogue. Zinnemann did a superb job of direction. The alpine scenes are exquisitely beautiful. The mountain climbing is realistically of the period (1932) and I found it to be completely engrossing.

The film is a morality play about the nature and reality of boundaries. And what type of tragedy can happen when one ignores boundaries. Beautifully done film. If you like real stories about real people you should love this film. If you're a special effects type of guy you might want to ignore it. Still, the cinemaphotography and mountain climbing scenes are worth a look--even for the most jaded modernist.