Fortunes of War (TV series)
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Cover of a DVD of the series
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| Genre | Drama |
| Written by |
Olivia Manning (novels) Alan Plater (adaptation) |
| Directed by | James Cellan Jones |
| Starring |
Kenneth Branagh Emma Thompson Ronald Pickup Robert Stephens Alan Bennett Rupert Graves |
| Composer(s) | Richard Holmes |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 7 |
| Production | |
| Location(s) | Greece (1 month), Egypt (2 months), Yugoslavia (2 months), Ealing Studios (interior shots) |
| Cinematography | David Feig John Record |
| Editor(s) | Tariq Anwar |
| Running time | 60 (per episode) |
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| Original network | BBC1, in association with WGBH-Boston and Primetime Television |
| Original release | 11 October – 22 November 1987 |
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. The series stays relatively faithful to the original novels, with no notable departures from their plot.
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