TESTAMENT OF YOUTH
by James Kent
synopsis
Vera Brittain’s beloved WWI memoir Testament of Youth is exquisitely realised in this moving and timely adaptation. Intelligent and free-spirited Vera overcomes the narrow-mindedness of her conservative parents, winning a scholarship to Oxford. Entranced by her brother’s dashing friend Roland, who shares her literary aspirations, she plunges into an intoxicating romance. Blooming, in love and on the cusp of fulfilling her ambitions, Vera’s dreams are brutally shattered by the onset of war. When Roland and her brother ship out to the front, she abandons the cloistered environs of university life and volunteers as a nurse. Immediately confronted with the pitiless reality of the war’s victims, her life is irrevocably changed as she loses, one-by-one, the young men she held so dear.
international title: | Testament of Youth |
original title: | Testament of Youth |
country: | United Kingdom |
year: | 2014 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | James Kent |
film run: | 130' |
release date: | UK 16/01/2015, DK 30/04/2015, BE 16/09/2015, FR 23/09/2015 |
screenplay: | Juliette Towhidi |
cast: | Kit Harington, Dominic West, Hayley Atwell, Emily Watson, Miranda Richardson, Alicia Vikander, Colin Morgan |
cinematography by: | Rob Hardy |
film editing: | Lucia Zucchetti |
art director: | Jon Henson |
producer: | Rosie Alison, David Heyman |
co-producer: | Henrik Zein, Celia Duval |
production: | Heyday Films, BBC Films |
distributor: | Cinéart, Mars Films Distribution |