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Fortunes of War (1000) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1000 · 420 mins · English
- Directed by
- James Cellan Jones
- Starring
- Kenneth Branagh, Emma Thompson, Esmond Knight, Rupert Graves, Robert Stephens, James Villiers
1987 BBC series adapts Olivia Manning’s novels, following English literature lecturer Guy Pringle (Kenneth Branagh) and his wife Harriet (Emma Thompson) in Bucharest at the start of World II. The cast includes Ronald Pickup, Robert Stephens, Alan Bennett, Philip Madoc and Rupert Graves. The adaptation stays faithful to the original plot.
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