Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 129 min
- Age rating
- PG-13
- Language
- English
- Country
- Denmark, United Kingdom
- Violence
- Moderate
The story
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.
- nurse
- world war i
- poetry
- pacifism
- flanders
- summer
- based on memoir or autobiography
- compassion
- pacifist
- war injury
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
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
- Alexandra Roach — Winifred Holtby
- Jenn Murray — Dorothy
- Henry Garrett — George
- Nicholas Le Prevost — Mr Leighton
- Nicholas Farrell — Headmaster
- Directed
- James Kent
- Written
- Juliette Towhidi
Production
- Rating
- 7.2 / 10 · 805 ratings
- Studio
- BBC Film, Heyday Films, Nordisk Film Denmark, Lipsync Productions, BFI, Protagonist Pictures
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