Julia (1977 film)

Julia is a 1977 drama film directed by Fred Zinnemann, from a screenplay by Alvin Sargent. It is based on Lillian Hellmans book Pentimento, a chapter of which purports to tell the story of her relationship with an alleged lifelong friend, Julia, who fought against the Nazis in the years prior to World War II. The film in DeLuxe Color was produced by Richard Roth, with Julien Derode as executive producer and Tom Pevsner as associate producer.

The young Lillian and her friend Julia, daughter of a wealthy family being brought up by her grandparents in the U.S., enjoy a childhood together and an extremely close relationship in late adolescence. Later, while medical studentphysician Julia Vanessa Redgrave attends Oxford and the University of Vienna and studies with such luminaries as Sigmund Freud, Lillian Jane Fonda, a struggling writer, suffers through revisions of her play with her mentor and sometime lover, famed author Dashiell Hammett Jason Robards at a beachhouse.Later, during the Nazi era, Lillian has become a celebrated playwright, and is invited to a writers conference in Russia. Julia, having taken on the battle against Nazism, enlists Lillian en route to smuggle money into Nazi Germany to assist the antiNazi cause. It is a dangerous mission especially for a Jewish intellectual on her way to Russia. ........

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