Hugh Whitemore adapted Bruce Chatwin's novel for this tale of a New York antique dealer who travels to Prague to buy the porcelain collection of the late Baron Utz, only to become embroiled in the wreckage of the dead man's unusual life history after he discovers that the collection is missing.

• Viva Pictures
• Academy Pictures
• Armin Mueller-Stahl
• Brenda Fricker
• Peter Riegert
• Paul Scofield
• Gaye Brown
• Miriam Karlin
• Pauline Melville
• Christian Mueller-Stahl