The Wednesday Play The Cellar and the Almond Tree (Season 9, Episode 20)
TV Episode | 80 min | Drama

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The Wednesday Play

The Cellar and the Almond Tree (Season 9, Episode 20)

TV Episode | 80 min | Drama

A former poet, now a Communist Party official in the German Democratic Republic, becomes entangled in the political machinery of a state about to plunge into a succession of Stalinist purges.

Director

Alan Bridges

Writer

David Mercer

Producer

Graeme MacDonald

Cinematographer

Geoff Mulligan (film segments) (as Geoffrey Mulligan)

Editor

Ken Pearce (film segments)

Production Designer

Richard Wilmot

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Edit Released

Updated Mar 4, 1970

Release date

Mar 4, 1970 (United Kingdom)

Awards

Series awards

7 wins & 7 nominations

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Cast	+ Add Cast
14 cast members

Name	Known for
Celia Johnson Countess Isabel von Reger Countess Isabel von Reger See fewer	Brief Encounter (1945)
Peter Vaughan Volubin Volubin See fewer	Straw Dogs (1971)
Sydney Tafler Blaustein Blaustein See fewer	The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)
Patsy Byrne Marenka Marenka See fewer	Les Misérables (1998)
Bernard Kay Robert Kelvin Robert Kelvin See fewer	Doctor Zhivago (1965)
Jon Rollason Gestapo Agent Gestapo Agent See fewer	Doctor Who (1963)
Godfrey James Interrogator Interrogator See fewer	The Aphrodite Inheritance (1979)
Peter Jesson Bernard Bernard See fewer	The Corridor People (1966)
Leonard Cracknell Pavel Pavel See fewer	David Copperfield (1956)
Joe Cornelius Prison Guard Prison Guard See fewer	Trog (1970)
Valentino Musetti Prison Guard Prison Guard See fewer	Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (1991)
Gerald Case Gentleman Gentleman See fewer	The Elephant Man (1980)
Lysandre De La Haye Little Girl (as Lysandre De-La-Haye) Little Girl (as Lysandre De-La-Haye) See fewer	Dark Places (1974)
Richard Beaumont Little Boy Little Boy See fewer	Scrooge (1970)