Testament of Youth is a powerful story of love, war and remembrance, based on the First World War memoir by Vera Brittain, which has become the classic testimony of that war from a woman’s point of view. A searing journey from youthful hopes and dreams to the edge of despair and back again, it’s a film about young love, the futility of war and how to make sense of the darkest times.
Type:
MOVIE
Country:
GB
Genres:
History, Drama, War
Release:
October 2014
Production:
BBC Film, Heyday Films, Nordisk Film Denmark, Lipsync Productions, BFI, Sony Pictures Classics, Protagonist Pictures, Ingenious Media, Hotwells Productions
Cast:
Alicia Vikander, Kit Harington, Taron Egerton, Colin Morgan, Dominic West, Emily Watson, Hayley Atwell, Anna Chancellor, Miranda Richardson, Joanna Scanlan, Alexandra Roach, Jenn Murray, Henry Garrett, Nicholas Le Prevost, Nicholas Farrell, Daisy Waterstone, Niamh Cusack, Teresa Churcher, Xavier Atkins, Heather Nicol, Laura Elsworthy, Naomi Everson, Jonathan Bailey, Charlotte Hope, Josh Taylor
Tags:
nurse, world war i, poetry, pacifism, flanders, summer, based on memoir or autobiography, compassion, pacifist, war injury, aspiring writer, nursing, edwardian, oxford university, 1910s, edwardian england, summertime, bad news, tenacity
