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Fortunes of War

A seven-part adaptation of Olivia Manning's war novels, focusing on a married couple's life, which is constantly in danger as they flee from country to country, one step ahead of the advancing Nazis.

 

Fortunes of War (1987)

Guy Pringle and his new wife, Harriet, are members of the English community in Bucharest, Rumania on the eve of World War II. The film catalogs and chronicles, after the war begins, the characters [diplomats, literary types, spies, penniless royalty, gays, lesbians] that cross and re-cross their path as they flee before the advancing Germany armies to Athens and then to Cairo.

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Running Time : 58 minutes
Premiered : October 11, 1987
Date Ended : November 22, 1987
Number of Episodes : 7
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Language : English
TV Station : BBC One
Country : United Kingdom
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Genre : Drama

Tags : Based on Novel, TV Mini-Series, Male-Female Relationship, War, Spy, Homosexual, Lesbian, WWII, Infidelity, Professor, Dysfunctional Marriage, Marriage Problems, Passion, Resistance, 1940s, Anti-Fascism, Activist, Balkan, Melancholy, Nazism, Diplomacy