The Shooting Party (1985)

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Country: UK
Genres: Drama, Romance
Release: 1985-05-24
Director: Alan Bridges
Writers: Isabel Colegate , Julian Bond
Language: English
Stars: James Mason , Edward Fox , Dorothy Tutin , John Gielgud (1904–2000) , Gordon Jackson , Cheryl Campbell (I) , Robert Hardy , Aharon Ipalé , Joris Stuyck , Rebecca Saire
Runtime: 98 min
Awards: Nominated for 1 BAFTA Award4 wins & 3 nominations total
AKA: The Shooting Party , The Shooting Party (United States of America) , Die letzte Jagd , Polowanie (Poland) , Jagtselskabet (Denmark) , La cacería (Spain) , Battuta di caccia (Italy) , Metsästysseurue (Finland) , La partie de chasse (France, French Republic) , На охоте , O Declínio dos Anos Dourados (Brazil) , The Shooting Party (United Kingdom)
Plot: Autumn, 1913: on the eve of the Great War, a small party of lords and ladies gather at the Hertfordshire estate of Sir Randolph Nettleby. A code of propriety governs all: dress, breakfast, relations with the estate's peasants, courtship, shooting, adultery. Lionel Stephens, who is courting Sir Randolph's daughter, gets into a shooting competition with Lord Gilbert Hartlip; Lord Gilbert's wife carries on discreet affairs; a pamphleteer circles the estate calling for no more killing, and Sir Robert's grandson hopes to protect a wild duck he's befriended. A way of life is ending: Lord Gilbert's violation of the gentlemen's code suggests internal rot as the real world presses in.
IMDB:tt0088111