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
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this series is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
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.
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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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