Wind from the Icy Country
# 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."

