Title: Pascali's Island
Release Date: 1988-08-01
Genres: Mystery & Suspense, Drama
High essence:
"The anguished Pascali lives in 1908 on the Turk-occupied, fictional Greek island of Nisi, during the dying days of the Ottoman Empire."Medium essence:
Dennis Schwartz:- The vulnerable, long-time self-exiled in Nisi, Viennese ar tist and best friend of Pascali, Lydia ( Helen Mirren ), makes the spy jealous by falling for the smug Bowles's bluster and plans to run away with him after he steals the valuable treasure.
- The middle-aged Basil Pascali ( Ben Kingsley ) is an ignored Turkish spy, his reports for the last 20 years go unread by the Sultan in Constantinople.
- The anguished Pascali lives in 1908 on the Turk-occupied, fictional Greek island of Nisi, during the dying days of the Ottoman Empire.
Low essence:
Dennis Schwartz:- ND (director/writer: James Dearden ; screenwriter:om the novel 1988) E xotically Levantine .
- The vulnerable, long-time self-exiled in Nisi, Viennese ar tist and best friend of Pascali, Lydia ( Helen Mirren ), makes the spy jealous by falling for the smug Bowles's bluster and plans to run away with him after he steals the valuable treasure.
- It's based on the rather complex swindle over an art treasure, that's adapted by Dearden from the novel by Barry Unsworth .
- The middle-aged Basil Pascali ( Ben Kingsley ) is an ignored Turkish spy, his reports for the last 20 years go unread by the Sultan in Constantinople.
- The anguished Pascali lives in 1908 on the Turk-occupied, fictional Greek island of Nisi, during the dying days of the Ottoman Empire.
- Pascali, in need of money, hires on as an interpreter and go-between for the smoothie phony archaeologist Englishman, Anthony Bowles (Charles Dance), who arrives for an indefinite stay in Nisi .
Source:
http://www.sover.net/~ozus/pascalisisland.html