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.
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Alicia Vikander
Vera Brittain
Kit Harington
Roland Leighton
Taron Egerton
Edward Brittain
Colin Morgan
Victor Richardson
Dominic West
Mr. Brittain
Emily Watson
Mrs. Brittain
Hayley Atwell
Hope Milroy
Anna Chancellor
Mrs. Leighton
Miranda Richardson
Miss Lorimer
Joanna Scanlan
Aunt Belle
Director
James Kent
Tagline
"Divided by war. United by love."
Status
Released
Original Language
EN
Revenue
$1,822,250
Production
BBC Film, Heyday Films, Nordisk Film Denmark, Lipsync Productions, BFI, Sony Pictures Classics, Protagonist Pictures, Ingenious Media, Hotwells Productions
Reno
December 4, 2015
> The lesson the WWI taught us that we shouldn't let it fade away. Kind of reminded me 'Atonement', but not a similar movie, except like you know the loved one goes to the war, serving a nurse in the army like stuffs. Actually, this one was a biopic of a young Vera Brittain that set in the England, 1914. Her wish becomes real to attend the university of Oxford, but at a same time the World War ...
CinemaSerf
November 10, 2024
I remember really enjoying the 1979 BBC dramatisation of this Vera Brittain memoir of her experiences as the Great War took hold of Britain at the start of the 20th century. It's all a little like "Narnia" as her family live out their lives in peace and relative prosperity whilst she (Alicia Vikander) considers a career at Somerville College. Her brother Edward (Taron Egerton) is keen to join up, ...
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