The Debut Ghana Poster screenwriter producer director Martin Rosen brilliantly achieved screenwriter producer director Martin Rosen brilliantly achieved what had been thought nearly impossible: a faithful big screen adaptation of Richard Adams’s classic British dystopian novel about a community of rabbits under terrible threat from modern forces They are joined on their voyage by a young airline copilot (Owen Wilson) The forbidden love story The Debut (1977) was the first full length feature from pioneering filmmaker Nouchka van Brakel Following the theme of Stanley Kubrick’s Lolita (1962) and Michael Powell’s Age of Consent (1969) – only this time time told from a female perspective – van Brakel’s The Debut (1977) tells the delicate story off the impossible love between a teenage girl and a middle aged married man