Parade's End

Parade's End

287 mins | Drama, Romance, War | Aug. 24, 2012

In the years before the First World War, three Britons are drawn into fraught and ultimately tragic relations: Anglican Christopher Tietjens, second son of the lord of the manor of Groby, Yorkshire, who is a disconsolate, Tory statistician in London; Catholic Sylvia Satterthwaite, his promiscuous and self-centered socialite wife who has married him only to hide the fact that their son is not really his; and freethinking Valentine Wannop, a young suffragette and daughter of a lady novelist, who is torn between her idealism and her attraction to "Chrissy". As the war works a profound change on Europe, and Chrissy is badly wounded in France, the conflict shatters and rearranges the lives of all three principals, as well as virtually everyone else in their elite circle.

Parade's End

287 mins | Drama, Romance, War | Aug. 24, 2012

Parade's End
In the years before the First World War, three Britons are drawn into fraught and ultimately tragic relations: Anglican Christopher Tietjens, second son of the lord of the manor of Groby, Yorkshire, who is a disconsolate, Tory statistician in London; Catholic Sylvia Satterthwaite, his promiscuous and self-centered socialite wife who has married him only to hide the fact that their son is not really his; and freethinking Valentine Wannop, a young suffragette and daughter of a lady novelist, who is torn between her idealism and her attraction to "Chrissy". As the war works a profound change on Europe, and Chrissy is badly wounded in France, the conflict shatters and rearranges the lives of all three principals, as well as virtually everyone else in their elite circle.
IMDb rating 7.5
Producers Mammoth Screen
Original title Parade's End
Directors Susanna White
Writers Ford Madox Ford, Tom Stoppard

Cast

Benedict Cumberbatch

as Christopher Tietjens

Rebecca Hall

as Sylvia Tietjens

Adelaide Clemens

as Valentine Wannop

Miranda Richardson

as Mrs. Wannop

Freddie Fox

as Edward Wannop

Janet McTeer

as Mrs. Satterthwaite

Ned Dennehy

as Father Consett

Alan Howard

as Tietjens Senior

Rupert Everett

as Mark Tietjens

Stephen Graham

as Vincent Macmaster

Anne-Marie Duff

as Edith Duchemin

Rufus Sewell

as Reverend Duchemin

Roger Allam

as General Edward Campion