this be superb the act wonderful and set and clothes and music but most of all the story itself . i be amaze there aren not more review of this movie certainly one of the best of the 1980s . it also a wonderful movie to see in tandem with the great random harvest which have much the same opening crisis a middle age and unknown english w. w. i officer be in a hospital toward the close of the war and suffering from shell shock and complete amnesia without any idea of his name and origin and or anywhere he belong he prove to be a very wealthy establish man when he recover and he will not remember the year before the war but there the movie resemblances end . my warm thanks to all who participate in the movie particularly the actor ian holm and alan bates and ann margret ( what a great and surprising casting choice ) and glenda jackson and julie christie . this one stay with you forever .