Coming Through

Coming Through

80 mins | Drama, Romance | Jan. 1, 1985

While researching the work of author D.H. Lawrence (Kenneth Branagh), Kate (Alison Steadman) begins a romance with a fellow academic, and learns about Lawrence's love affair with the married aristocrat Frieda Von Richthofen (Helen Mirren) in this made-for-television drama. As Lawrence and Von Richthofen fall deeper into their forbidden relationship, Kate grows more familiar with Lawrence's work, such as the sensuous Lady Chatterly's Lover.

Coming Through

80 mins | Drama, Romance | Jan. 1, 1985

Coming Through
While researching the work of author D.H. Lawrence (Kenneth Branagh), Kate (Alison Steadman) begins a romance with a fellow academic, and learns about Lawrence's love affair with the married aristocrat Frieda Von Richthofen (Helen Mirren) in this made-for-television drama. As Lawrence and Von Richthofen fall deeper into their forbidden relationship, Kate grows more familiar with Lawrence's work, such as the sensuous Lady Chatterly's Lover.
IMDb rating 6.1
Producers ITV Central
Original title Coming Through
Directors Peter Barber-Fleming
Writers Alan Plater

Cast

Kenneth Branagh

as D.H. Lawrence

Helen Mirren

as Frieda von Richtofen Weekley

Alison Steadman

as Kate

Felicity Montagu

as Jessie Chambers

Fiona Victory

as Alice Dax

Norman Rodway

as William Hopkin

Alison King

as Sallie Hopkin

Lynn Farleigh

as Lydia Lawrence

Malcolm Storry

as Arthur Lawrence

Robin Paul Bassford

as Young Lawrence