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Directed by James Ivory. Film with Adrian Ross Magenti, Crispin Bonne Carter, Anthony Gilding, Luke Parry, Rodney Rymell, Mary McWilliams, David Delaney, Mark Payton, Gerald Paris, Atalanta White. Original name: Howards End. Genre Drama – UK, Japan, 1992

This is the meeting of three different social classes at the beginning of the twentieth century. The Wilcox family, the rich and high-ranking – the Schlegel family, the wealthy and bourgeois – the Bast family, the proletarians. Ruth Wilcox strikes up an affectionate friendship with Margaret Schlegel, to the point of bequeathing the Howard House, her favorite country home, to her after her death. But her husband, the cynical Heinrich, receives his wife’s handwritten will and burns it in agreement with the children. Casa Howard turns into a furniture warehouse for the two Shegel sisters: Margaret and Helen. The latter disappears in Germany to hide her out-of-wedlock pregnancy, but Aunt Julie’s illness forces her to return to London. The dishonor of this illegitimate belly strikes the Wilcox family, and Henry puts his son Charles in charge of the matter, but his ineptitude will lead to an accidental crime. A double shame shakes Henry and Margaret’s relationship. He will have to decide on the succession of the House of Howard.