Wind from the Icy Country

Wind from the Icy Country is a 1964 Australian television play directed by Patrick Barton and starring Norman Kaye.

Premise
A German engineer, Ehrbar, who worked in China during the war encounters a Jewish doctor in an isolated Chinese mountain village in Paoshan, in the northwest. Ehrbar breaks down in a car with his companion, Ella, who is fleeing an unhappy marriage.

Cast

 * Brian James as Rachmann
 * Norman Kaye as Ehrbar
 * Patsy King as Ella
 * Kurt Ludescher as Captain Kang
 * Neil Curnow as lt Mah
 * Dawn Klinberg
 * Roly Barlee
 * Ray Angel
 * Joseph Szabo
 * Douglas Kelly
 * Clen Farmer
 * Blaise Anthony

Production
Robert Amos adapted his radio play. Amos described the story as a drama on conscience in the style of Kafka.

Reception
The TV critic for The Sydney Morning Herald thought that it proved that "when a play is completely focused on the working out of intense human conflicts at close range, television proves to be an excellent medium... Brian James made the doctor into a tragic and moving figure consumed by the torture of past experience."