Edge of Darkness
1986
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- Season 1 overviewOct 11-Nov 22, 19877 episodesSeason 1 episodes1. The Balkans: September 1939 Oct 11, 1987
- Guy and Harriet Pringle settle down to married life in Bucharest.
- 2. Romania: January 1940 Oct 18, 1987
- Harriet feels neglected; Sasha deserts the Romanian army.
- 3. Romania: June 1940 Oct 25, 1987
- The Gestapo wants Guy; Harriet and Sasha must flee Bucharest.
- 4. Greece: October 1940 Nov 1, 1987
- In Athens, Harriet strikes up a friendship with a young British officer.
- 5. Egypt: April 1941 Nov 8, 1987
- Harriet finds work in Cairo; Harriet urges Guy to leave Alexandria and return to Cairo.
- 6. Egypt: September 1942 Nov 15, 1987
- Dysentery puts Harriet in an Italian hospital as the war draws near.
- 7. The Middle East: January 1943 Nov 22, 1987
- Guy believes Harriet is dead, and helps Simon walk again; Harriet returns to Cairo.
Fortunes of War is a 1987 BBC television adaptation of Olivia Manning's cycle of novels Fortunes of War. [1] 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 [2] as his wife Harriet.
Fortunes of War: With Emma Thompson, Kenneth Branagh, Charles Kay, Mark Drewry. A British couple living in Romania try to survive as Europe is engulfed in World War II.
World War II drama starring Kenneth Branagh and Emma Thompson as a newly married English couple caught up in the heart of the conflict in eastern Europe.
September 1939. War breaks out as newly-married Guy and Harriet Pringle set out on a journey across Europe and into the heart of the Balkans - to Romania where an uneasy neutrality reigns.
Guy Pringle and his new wife, Harriet, are members of the English community in Bucharest, Romania on the eve of World War II; after the war begins, they cross paths with a host of unusual ...
Fortunes of War. October 1940. Unwittingly betrayed by Prince Yakimov, Guy's name has appeared on a Gestapo "death list." The Pringle flat has been ransacked and the Jewish refugee, Sasha Drucker, has disappeared.
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.
