Sharpe's Challenge (2006)

Directed by

Tom Clegg

Genre

drama film, adventure film

Country

United Kingdom

Runtime

2h 18m

Rated

16

Rating

6.2 of 10 from 41 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Richard Sharpe and his friend Patrick Harper leave their peaceful retirement in France to travel to India. There they face new threats and must use their military skills to survive.

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What happens

Sharpe's Challenge is a British TV film from 2006 and the 15th episode of the ITV series based on Bernard Cornwell's historical fiction novels about the British soldier Richard Sharpe during the Napoleonic Wars. Contrary to most parts of the TV series, Sharpe's Challenge, as well as the follow-up Sharpe's Peril, is not based entirely on one of Cornwell's novels, but it uses and adapts some characters and storylines from Sharpe's Tiger (1997). Both are set in 1817, two years after Sharpe has retired as a farmer in Normandy, so chronologically they come after Sharpe's Assassin (1815) and before the final novel Sharpe's Devil (1820–21). Some of the events in the film are inspired by events in the first three novels of the series. In Sharpe's Challenge and Sharpe's Peril, Sharpe and his comrade in arms, Patrick Harper, have been temporarily called out of retirement and asked to go to India. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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