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Testament of Youth is a 2014 British drama film based on the First World War memoir of the same name written by Vera Brittain. The film stars Alicia Vikander as Vera Brittain, an independent young woman who abandoned her studies at Somerville College , Oxford , to become a war nurse. [4]
- $5.3 million
- Max Richter
- $10 million
Jan 16, 2015 · A film adaptation of Vera Brittain's memoir of her life during World War I, starring Alicia Vikander and Kit Harington. See the trailer, cast, reviews, trivia, and more on IMDb.
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- Biography, Drama, History
- James Kent
- 2015-01-16
Testament of Youth is a memoir of British nurse and activist Vera Brittain (1893–1970), published in 1933. Brittain's memoir covers the years 1900 to 1925, and continues with Testament of Experience, published in 1957, and encompassing the years 1925 to 1950. Between these two books comes Testament of Friendship (published in 1940), which is ...
Jun 5, 2015 · A 2015 British period drama based on the memoir of Vera Brittain, a nurse and writer who witnessed the horrors of World War I. The film has mixed reviews from critics and audiences, who praise its acting and cinematography but criticize its lack of originality and drama.
- (212)
- James Kent
- PG-13
- Alicia Vikander
Testament of Youth is both a record of what she lived through and an elegy for a vanished generation. Hailed by the Times Literary Supplement as a book that helped “both form and define the mood of its time,” it speaks to any generation that has been irrevocably changed by war. Genres NonfictionHistoryClassicsMemoirBiographyWarWorld War I. ...more.
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- Paperback
A film adaptation of Vera Brittain's memoir of her experiences as a nurse and pacifist during World War I. Alicia Vikander stars as Vera, who witnesses the horrors of war and loses her fiancé and brother.
Jan 16, 2015 · Testament of Youth is a searing story of love, war and remembrance, based on the First World War memoir by Vera Brittain which became the classic testimony of that war from a woman’s point of...
