This international film addresses the question often asked in film "is it possible to have a platonic friendship between an unmarried and woman? ". In this case the man is a handsome rich playboy, Erast (Gabriel Olds), and the woman, Liza, (Barbora Bobulova), is the beautiful but naive daughter of a hard working peasant farmer recently deceased. Liza's mother is sickly but refuses to die until she has assured Liza's future by marriage. Unfortunately Liza has been discovered by Erast who cannot marry Liza because of class differences, but he supports the mother and daughter by buying their farm produce. As a playboy he is not wanting for sexual release so is very careful that while he spends his free time with Liza their relationship is not sexual. Until it is. Then the relationship and his life go downhill, he loses his money gambling and must marry the rich countess who has been courting him. Needless to say, there is not a happy ending.
Ben Gazzara is the main character as narrator and does a nice job. This is a small film but I found the production quality to be good even though it seemed filmed mostly in a studio with green screen. This film is worth the 95 minutes running time.
Ben Gazzara is the main character as narrator and does a nice job. This is a small film but I found the production quality to be good even though it seemed filmed mostly in a studio with green screen. This film is worth the 95 minutes running time.
