Brought back many memory's of the War. To be scared everynight. To go down to the shelters,, Then come up and whole streets were gone. When they left the dock and the people looked back at there Homeland Maybe for the last time. This was so well done Thank you
Yakimov is such a complicated character. I fully enjoy him, and how he changes gradually. I truly miss him now that he is gone. Ronald Pickup is a great actor . Thank you!
This has to be taken as a Screenplay, however it's exceptionally well presented and has great relevance in the now. A time in which we endure many impositions. The common denominators never change, Misinformation by propaganda, Money, Power and controlling people's lives.
Yes but the ''huddled masses yearning to breathe free'' are now stuffed into shipping containers and most of them die horrible deaths, asphyxiated beneath piles of stinking bodies. Not exactly elite, erudite, academics bravely enduring foreign service posts in exotic places is it?
This is incredible. I wish they would re-release a version so I could see it in the full visual splendor they meant it to have. I do not understand why Emma Thompson did not have a bigger film career after this. I mean I know she had one, but she should have been offered so many parts based on this work.
@@Shadowman4710I suppose he had to change his way of speaking entirely to be able to play Shakespeare and international roles. I’ve seen him onstage in the West End in The Entertainer. It was exactly as it was played by Lord Olivier.
I was in nafplion when they made this, the greek bloke looking forlorn at52.44 is in fact a Scottish lad from the Gorbals called jam jar Johnny, called that because of the glasses he wore,he died there a year later from the drink and is buried there,part of a great gang of people that lived and worked there for years.
Whatever happened to Christopher Strauli [Toby Lush]? He was huge in the 70's and 80's. Didn't appear in anything at all during the 90's. Came back for 2 jobs in 2000 & 1 in 2001. Then 1 more in 2004 before completely disappearing from the screen. He gave up a career as a mathematician and science teacher to attend the Old Vic so he's not without options. He'll be 78 years old.
Yes, superb music indeed, I also was convinced that it was original Rumanian folk music, but after intensive searching I found out that all music in the series is composed and conducted by Richard Holmes. However, I keep searching to find out more about it.
@Marek Anglichan Perhaps if you were on a boat filled with people terrified of possible imminent death, you wouldn't find it so strange or objectionable to listen to a man reading a comforting poem about death. You wouldn't think of him as a "twit," and you certainly wouldn't be thinking derogatory thoughts about his class.
Indeed, Yakimov, thought himself quite unassailable, not unlike many other Englisman, alas, just as I was beginning to find him sympathetic. I too shall miss him.
The comments are disgusting, no one realizes that the British are using every convention to distract from the certain torture and annihilation of everyone and everything they hold dear in the midst of the world’s most destructive war. The U.S. allowed this to proceed while trying to fund the allies to fight for them puntil Pearl Harbor made the population feel sufficiently vulnerable that troops were involved. By the time the U.S. arrived, what was left of the conquered nations were only starving, decimated populations, and pillaged cultures, demoralized by collaboration.
I was thinking that the light seems wrong for Greece, but it's supposed to be October. I was in Greece in June/July. Of course the light would be dramatically different!
C A Campbell, A useful remark but i believe that they came to Greece when Italy tried to invade us ,at the end of October 1940 (28th) and they left when Germans were near Athens ,at the end of April 1941 (27th) ! Greek army fought against Axis powers for 6 months (most of those months we were beating the Fascists and we liberated many cities of North Ipeirus ,many miles inside South Albania) and all those months they lived in Athens . So the colours you are referring to ,are not only from October. Anyway summer is always marvellous in Greece ,so you did very well to visit us that part of year. :))
Spoiler: I was sorry to see Yakimov die. I was hoping he'd end up in India trying to make a go of it as an elephant keeper (and barely aware of the Quit India Movement).
+SuspiciouslyDLicious As a onetime avowed atheist myself, I think that atheism often results from accepting the definition of "God" held by traditional Western religions. "He" is basically just a giant-size, all-powerful human with all the ridiculous prejudices of humans. For me, "God" is a misleading, mostly useless term because of all the traditional baggage that goes with it. I prefer to think of a vast, infinite intelligence as the ultimate mystery. I arrived at that point because of several "psychic" experiences that could not be explained by a belief that the universe is only matter.
If god doesn't exist, then murder isn't wrong. This history we're watching was brought about 150 years after Europe rejected god (around the time of the French Revolution). Whether you believe or don't, one of the facts one cannot deny is that this is the human condition. The Americans who had their revolution around the same time embraced god, and had to step in to save Europe from itself twice.
@@lapamful That is an incredibly stupid and myopic view of how the world works. People have been slaughtering each other in the name of your "God" (whoever the fuck that may be) for tens of thousands of years. Btw, the NAZIS? Not Atheists.
Christ. I'm not surprised that old fart Anthony Burgess was so keen on this. Just the sort of trash that he would wallow in. I'm surprised at Plater doing the script, though - sounds way below his standard. Must have been strapped for cash and time.
imagine though how very frightening it would be being in europe at that time; just waiting for the enemy to catch up with you. you are fully aware of the terrible things they are doing and you are just within there grasp waiting.
