The Riddle of the Sands (1979)

Directors

Tony Maylam

Cast

Simon MacCorkindale, Michael York, Jenny Agutter, Alan Badel, Jürgen Andersen, Michael Sheard, Olga Lowe, Hans Meyer, Wolf Kahler, Ronald Markham

The story

In the autumn of 1901, Carruthers, an aristocratic junior official in the British Foreign Office, is invited on a yachting and duck-shooting holiday by an old University acquaintance called Arthur Davies. On Carruthers' arrival on Germany's northern coast to join the yacht Dulcibella, Davies explains to him that he has a hidden agenda for the trip and the invitation beyond duck-hunting. While boating around the Frisian Islands ostensibly correcting antiquated British sea charts of the coastline's shifting topography, by chance he had met a retired German sailor called Dollmann on the yacht Medusa with his wife and daughter, Clara, with…

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