The Remains of the Day

Overview

A rule-bound head butler's world of manners and decorum in the household he maintains is tested by the arrival of a housekeeper who falls in love with him in post-WWI Britain. The possibility of romance and his master's cultivation of ties with the Nazi cause challenge his carefully maintained veneer of servitude.

Directed by James Ivory

Top cast

Anthony Hopkins

James Stevens

Emma Thompson

Miss Kenton

James Fox

Lord Darlington

Christopher Reeve

Jack Lewis

Hugh Grant

Reginald Cardinal

Peter Vaughan

William Stevens

Ben Chaplin

Charlie, Head Footman

Paula Jacobs

Mrs. Mortimer, the cook

Patrick Godfrey

Spencer

Michael Lonsdale

Dupont D'Ivry

Rupert Vansittart

Sir Geoffrey Wren

Tim Pigott-Smith

Thomas Benn

Lena Headey

Lizzie

Paul Copley

Harry Smith

Peter Cellier

Sir Leonard Bax

B

Brigitte Kahn

Baroness

John Savident

Doctor Meredith

Pip Torrens

Doctor Richard Carlisle

Peter Eyre

Lord Halifax

Wolf Kahler

German ambassador

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