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Private Peaceful (2012)Set in the fields of Devon and the WW1 battlefields of Flanders, two brothers fall for the same girl while contending with the pressures of their feudal family life, the war, and the price of courage and cowardice. Director:Pat O'Connor |
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| Richard Griffiths | ... | ||
| Jack O'Connell | ... | ||
| John Lynch | ... | ||
| Frances de la Tour | ... | ||
| Alexandra Roach | ... | ||
| Maxine Peake | ... | ||
| George MacKay | ... | ||
| Hero Fiennes-Tiffin | ... | ||
| Izzy Meikle-Small | ... | ||
| Anthony Flanagan | ... | ||
| Eline Powell | ... | ||
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Paul Chequer | ... | |
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David Yelland | ... | |
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Rita Davies | ... | |
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A classic rites of passage story of two brothers and the exuberance and pain of their teenage love for the same girl, the pressures of their feudal family life, the horrors and folly of war and the ultimate price of courage and cowardice. Written by Guy de Beaujeu
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Divided by love. United by war. Torn apart by injustice.Genres:
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12 October 2012 (UK) See more »Filming Locations:
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A beautiful portrayal of love and loyalty, this film gives a convincing insight into the lives at home and at war of young men in the First War. Key relationships are poignantly rendered, firstly between cocksure Charlie Peaceful and his sensitive and introspective brother Tommo. Their relationship with their father is particularly moving as well, as is their mutual love for their friend Molly. One thing that stands out for me is the authenticity of the film's portrayal of their acceptance of each other, of one sibling's 'conquest' of Molly, and of the relative poverty of their situation as fatherless farm-boys - although the outbursts of politicised rebellion in this respect are also convincing, if not when blurted out to the landowner who is bizarrely drinking in the public bar with the lads. This is indeed one of several anachronisms in the film (along with unrealistic woodcutting of the forester and the strangely silent field hospital), but these do not undermine what is otherwise a deeply moving portrayal of an everyday tragedy.