title: Wind from the Icy Country
text: # 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."
  
  