sentences:  Additionally, the supporting cast differs somewhat; for instance, in the novel, the Gilbert character is Max Hare, a young British engineer building a dam in the hills who knows the local language, and there is also a modern-languages professor character who acts as Iris's and Max's interpreter who does not appear in the film.The cricket-obsessed characters Charters and Caldicott were created especially for the film and do not appear in the novel.The plot has clear references to the political situation leading up to World War II.