Release Date

11 Oct, 1987

Runtime

01:00: (HH:MM)

Total Episode/Season

7/1

Synopsis

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. Other cast members included Ronald Pickup, Robert Stephens, Alan Bennett, Philip Madoc and Rupert Graves. The series stays relatively faithful to the original novels, with no notable departures from their plot.

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Miniseries

11 Oct, 1987

Actors

Emma Thompson

Kenneth Branagh

Rupert Graves

Ronald Pickup

Charles Kay

Robert Stephens

Ronald Fraser

Alan Bennett

Vernon Dobtcheff

Caroline Langrishe

Mark Drewry

James Villiers

Greg Hicks

Esmond Knight

Ciaran Madden

Richard Clifford

Elena Secota

Christopher Strauli

Crew

Tariq Anwar

Terry Elms

Christine Rawlins

Richard Holmes

Elizabeth Rowell

Marion McDougall

Betty Willingale

David Feig

Olivia Manning

Alan Plater

Suzan Harrison