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 the 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.

The story begins in sunny Derbyshire, where the strong-willed young Vera Brittain (Alicia Vikander) is busy petitioning her traditionalist father to allow her to apply for Oxford. It’s a battle she will win, only for her to abandon her academic aspirations with the War’s outbreak. Compelled instead to volunteer as a nurse, she experiences first-hand the graphic after-effects of the conflict, while bearing personal witness to the War’s toll on a generation of young men, many of whom never returned home.

 

Client: Heyday Films

Starring: Alicia Vikander, Kit Harington, Taron Egerton, Dominic West, Miranda Richardson

Writer: Juliette Towhidi

Director: James Kent

Photographer: Laurie Sparham