Brief Encounter (1974 film) Brief Encounter (1974 film) Brief Encounter is a 1974 British-Italian television film starring Richard Burton and Sophia Loren, adapted from the play "Still Life" by Noël Coward. The plot of the film is about two strangers, both married to others, who meet in a railway station and find themselves in a brief but intense affair. The material was previously the basis for the David Lean film "Brief Encounter" (1945). Burton was cast at the last moment, after Robert Shaw dropped out. The film had its premiere on U.S. television on 12 November 1974 as part of the "Hallmark Hall of
Leon Coward Sydney Indie Film Festival (Sydney, Australia) WILDsound Fest (Toronto, Canada) KaPow Intergalactic Film Festival (California, USA) The Montreal International Wreath Awards Film Festival (Montreal, Canada) The Golden Blasters Science Fiction Short Film Awards (The National Irish Science Fiction Film Festival) (Dublin, Ireland) Fantastic Planet Film Festival (Sydney Australia) Miami Short Film Festival (Miami, USA) Best Short Fest (San Diego, USA) Leon Coward Leon Coward (born 1991) is an Australian artist, composer, writer, film-maker and co-founder of the chamber orchestra and vocal ensemble Camerata Academica of the Antipodes. Coward was homeschooled, and has an older sister, Imogen Coward, and brother, Taliésin