Plot
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.
Cast
as Harriet Pringle
as Guy Pringle
as Simon Boulderstone
as Prince Yakimov
as Dobson
as Bill Castlebar
as Lord Pinkrose
as Bella Niculescu
Network
Status
Ended
First Aired Date
October 11, 1987
Last Aired Date
November 22, 1987
Production Companies
GBH
BBC
Type
Miniseries
Number of Season
1
Number of Episodes
7
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