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 armies to Athens and then to Cairo.

Director: James Cellan Jones
Screenwriter: Alan Plater
Based on the novels by Olivia Manning
Producer: Betty Willingale

Principal Cast: Emma Thompson, Kenneth Branagh