Portobello Pictures
"The casting is uniformly excellent, with Ronald Pickup perfectly cast as the dreadful yet somehow endearingly child-like Prince Yakimoff. Just as good are Robert Stephens and Alan Bennett, while the understated Charles Kay is particularly affecting as the reserved Dobson. Both Branagh and Thompson are superb."
The British Film Institute
Guy Pringle and his new wife, Harriet, are members of the English community in Bucharest, Rumania on the eve of World War II.
FORTUNES OF WAR catalogues and chronicles, after the war begins, the diverse characters that cross and re-cross their path as they flee before the advancing Germany army to Athens and then to Cairo.
Year of release: 1987
Director: James Cellan Jones
Screenwriter: Alan Plater
Based on the novels by Olivia Manning
Producer: Betty Willingale
Executive Producer: Eric Abraham
Principal Cast: Emma Thompson, Kenneth Branagh