On the eve of World War II Guy & Harriet Pringle are members of the English community in Bucharest. After war breaks out their adventures begin as they flee before the advancing Germany armies to Athens and then to Cairo.

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Kenneth Branagh as Guy Pringle
Emma Thompson as Harriet Pringle
Alan Bennett as Lord Pinkrose
Jeremy Brundell as Charles Warden
Harry Burton as Sasha Drucker
Magdalena Buznea as Despina
Anthony Calf as Corporal Arnold
Jack Calloway as Ross
Nicolas Chagrin as Ionescu
Richard Clifford as Clarence Lawson
Michael Cochrane as Clifford
Beryl Cooke as Gladys Twocurry
Sam Dastor as Dr. Shafik
Keith Edwards as Buschman
Ronald Fraser as Commander Sheppey
Glyn Grain as Foxy Leverett
Rupert Graves as Simon Boulderstone
Diana Hardcastle as Edwina Little
Greg Hicks as Aiden Pratt
Barry Jackson as McCann
Charles Kay as Dobson
Desmond Knight as Liversage
Caroline Langrishe as Bella Niculesco
Richard Linford as Tony Brody
Ciaran Madden as Angela Hooper
Philip Madoc as Freddie von Flugel
Nickey Margolis as Allain
Lollie May as Mabel Twocurry
Desmond McNamara as Galpin
Claire Oberman as Mortimer
Ronald Pickup as Prince Yakimov
Patricia Quinn as Mona Castlebar
Clifford Rose as Professor Gracey
Jeremy Sinden as Lord Lisdoonvarna
Leslie Southwick as Major Hardy
Robert Stephens as Castlebar
Christopher Strauli as Toby Lush
Peter Tilbury as Alan Frewin
James Villiers as Sir Desmond Hooper

Production Credits

Producer Betty Willingale for BBC TV
Director James Cellan Jones
Screenwriter Alan Plater based on novel by Olivia Manning