It's 1939 and professor Guy Pringle arrives in Romania with his new wife, Harriet, in reluctant tow. Soon Guy has thrown caution to the wind and is vocally expressing his distaste for fascism, much to Harriet's concern. Fortunes of War is truly epic, using the Pringles as lynch pin from which we observe the all consuming arrival of the Second World War as it cuts a brutal swath across Europe and North Africa. This adaptation of Olivia Manning's autobiographical novels is a beautifully performed
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FORTUNES OF WAR: DISC 2 (1987)
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It's 1939 and professor Guy Pringle arrives in Romania with his new wife, Harriet, in reluctant tow. Soon Guy has thrown caution to the wind and is vocally expressing his distaste for fascism, much to Harriet's concern. Fortunes of War is truly epic, using the Pringles as lynch pin from which we observe the all consuming arrival of the Second World War as it cuts a brutal swath across Europe and North Africa. This adaptation of Olivia Manning's autobiographical novels is a beautifully performed
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FORTUNES OF WAR: DISC 3 (1987)
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It's 1939 and professor Guy Pringle arrives in Romania with his new wife, Harriet, in reluctant tow. Soon Guy has thrown caution to the wind and is vocally expressing his distaste for fascism, much to Harriet's concern. Fortunes of War is truly epic, using the Pringles as lynch pin from which we observe the all consuming arrival of the Second World War as it cuts a brutal swath across Europe and North Africa. This adaptation of Olivia Manning's autobiographical novels is a beautifully performed
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JEWEL IN THE CROWN DISC 1 (1984)
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The British Raj: though their position seems secure, thoughtful English men and women know that "their" time in India is coming to an end. The story begins with an unjust arrest for rape; a young public school educated Indian man considers himself English rather than Indian, he works as a journalist in India, lives with his aunt and becomes involved with a British woman, Daphne. One night they are attacked in the Bibighar Gardens by a group of unknown men and she is raped. A lower-class British
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JEWEL IN THE CROWN DISC 2 (1984)
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The British Raj: though their position seems secure, thoughtful English men and women know that "their" time in India is coming to an end. The story begins with an unjust arrest for rape and the consequences of this echo through the series. Questions of identity and personal responsibility are explored against a background of war and personal intrigue.
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JEWEL IN THE CROWN DISC 3 (1984)
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The British Raj: though their position seems secure, thoughtful English men and women know that "their" time in India is coming to an end. The story begins with an unjust arrest for rape and the consequences of this echo through the series. Questions of identity and personal responsibility are explored against a background of war and personal intrigue.
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JEWEL IN THE CROWN DISC 4 (1984)
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The British Raj: though their position seems secure, thoughtful English men and women know that "their" time in India is coming to an end. The story begins with an unjust arrest for rape and the consequences of this echo through the series. Questions of identity and personal responsibility are explored against a background of war and personal intrigue.
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NOWHERE IN AFRICA (2007)
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This justifiably acclaimed epic tells the fascinating story of a well-heeled German Jewish family, Jettel, Walter and 5-year-old Regina, who fled the Nazis in the late 1930s and settled as farmers in Kenya. Here they, as German citizens, eventually face internment, separation, Walter joining the British army, and a detioration in their marriage.
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THE HEART OF THE MATTER (1953)
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Sierra Leone 1942; Trevor Howard gives perhaps his best performance as the humane deputy police commissioner in debt to a local trader and being blackmailed for having an affair outside his failed marriage. In the book, riddled with guilt, he kills himself, one of the deepest sins of his Catholic faith, but in the film his death is accidental. Nevertheless this tale of torment is an atmospheric and noteworthy adaptation of one of Greene's works and a superbly acted depictation of religious and m
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