Fortunes of War (1987)
- Directed by
- James Cellan Jones
- Genre
- drama
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Length
- 1 season, 7 episodes
- Rated
- 16
- Rating
- 6.3 of 10 from 14 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
A British couple navigates life in Bucharest as World War Two begins. The husband is a university lecturer and his wife adjusts to the dangers and uncertainties of their new reality.
melancholictenseslow-burnvisually lushgroundedintimatemeasuredatmospheric
What happens
Fortunes of War is a 1987 BBC television adaptation of Olivia Manning's cycle of novels Fortunes of War. It stars Kenneth Branagh as Guy Pringle, lecturer in English Literature in Bucharest during the early part of the Second World War, and Emma Thompson as his wife Harriet. Kenneth Branagh and Emma Thompson met filming the TV series and married in real life. Other cast members included Ronald Pickup, Robert Stephens, Alan Bennett, Philip Madoc and Rupert Graves. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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