My House in Umbria is a 2003
HBO made-for-television movie, based on the
novella of the same name by
William Trevor and published along with another novella in the volume
Two Lives. The film stars
Maggie Smith and was directed by
Richard Loncraine.
Cast
Plot
Emily Delahunty (
Maggie Smith) is an eccentric
British romance novelist who lives in
Umbria in central
Italy. One day while travelling, the train she is on is bombed by
terrorists. After she wakes up in a hospital, she invites three of the other survivors of the disaster to stay at her Italian villa for recuperation. Of these are The General, a retired British Army veteran, Werner, a young
German man, and Aimee, a young American girl who has now become
mute after her parents were both killed in the explosion.
As the group recovers from their ordeal (in which The General lost his daughter, and Werner lost his girlfriend and suffered considerable burns to his arm), the explosion is being investigated by Inspector Girotti, a local policeman. Responding to the warmth and kindness of Mrs Delahunty and the others, Aimee begins to speak again, while the local authorities seek out any relatives who might be able to take her in. They eventually locate her uncle, Tom Riversmith, a...
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