Andrina (film) explained

Screenplay:	Bill Forsyth
Director:	Bill Forsyth
Country:	Scotland
Producer:	Roderick Graham
Location:	Orkney
Runtime:	50 minutes
Company:	BBC Scotland
Network:	BBC1

Andrina is a 1981 television play based on a short story by George MacKay Brown, adapted and directed by Bill Forsyth for BBC Scotland.^{[1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8]}

Plot

A retired sea captain living alone in a remote cottage in Orkney is befriended by a young girl, Andrina, who asks him for a love story from his past. He repeatedly refuses to tell her, until he eventually succumbs, when the consequences are not as he expected.

Cast

• Cyril Cusack as Captain Bill Torvald
• Wendy Morgan as Andrina
• Sandra Voe as Tina Stewart
• Jimmy Yuill as Stanley
• Dave Anderson as Isaac

Notes and References

1. https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/d99eb31fbc31423a9cb698ecaaacc63b BBC – Radio Times – Andrina
2. https://web.archive.org/web/20220524093223/https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b69a32722 British Film Institute – Andrina
3. https://www.loc.gov/item/jots.200013382 Library of Congress – Andrina
4. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/dlDisplay.do?docId=BLLSA2101953 British Library – Andrina/Brown
5. Review — Sunday Times Magazine, 29 November 1981, pp. 9–10.
6. Review — Benny Green, Punch, 9 December 1981, p. 1069.
7. Review — Alan Bold, "Trust the Teller, Not the Telly", Times Literary Supplement, 11 December 1981, p. 1442.
8. Review — Tom Milne, Sight and Sound 51, no. 1 (Winter, 1981): 16.