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Fall of the Eagles - 4 Disc DVD Set
War and Peace - 5 Disc DVD Set
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Fall of the Eagles
Devised by John Elliot (creator of A for Andromeda, Mogul-The Troubleshooters), Fall of Eagles is a stunning dramatisation of the declining years and final collapse of three of the most powerful European dynasties - the Hapsburgs, Romanovs and Hohenzollerns - between the mid-19th century and the end of the First World War. The series focuses on the tempestuous reigns of Emperor Franz Josef of Austria-Hungary, Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany.
An incredible cast, which reads like a Who's Who of Britain's finest actors, brings the historical figures richly to life. Charles Kay (Edge of Darkness, I Claudius) plays the tragic last Tsar of Russia, while Gayle Hunnicutt (Dallas, The Martian Chronicles) is his wife, the tenacious Tsarina Alexandra. Patrick Stewart(Star Trek: The Next Generation, X-Men) plays Lenin, on the road to revolution and power. Troubled rulers Kaiser Wilhelm and Emperor Franz Josef are played by Barry Foster (Van der Valk, Orde Wingate) and Laurence Naismith (The Persuaders!, Oh Father!), respectively, with both Diane Keen (The Cuckoo Waltz, Doctors) and Rachel Gurney (Upstairs, Downstairs, The Portrait of a Lady) featuring as the latter's wife, the Empress Elisabeth. Gemma Jones (The Duchess of Duke Street, Bridget Jone's Diary) is Queen Victoria's eldest daughter Vicky and Denis Lil (Survivors, The Royal) her Prussian husband, Fritz. Maurice Denham (The Lotus Eaters, Miss Marple) is his father Wilhelm I and Curt Jurgens (The Spy Who Loved Me, Smiley's People), in a rare television role, is the Iron Chancellor Bismarck.
The series boasts episodes written by Jack Pulman (I Claudius, War and Peace, Private Schultz), Troy Kennedy Martin (Z Cars, The Italian Job, Edge of Darkness) and Trevor Griffiths (Reds, Fatherland), and directed by Rudolph Cartier (1984, The Quatermass Experiment), David Cunliffe (Victoria and Albert, The Onedin Line) and Bill Hays (The Tale of Beatrix Potter, Rock Follies).
This digitally remastered DVD release makes Fall of Eagles available for the very first time since it was first broadcast thirty years ago.
War and Peace
The classic BBC dramatisation of Tolstoy's epic story of love and loss set against the backdrop of the Napoleonic Wars. Oscar-winning actor Anthony Hopkins heads the cast as the soul-searching Pierre Bezuhov (a role for which he won the 1972 Best Actor BAFTA); Morag Hood is the impulsive and beautiful Natasha Rostova; Alan Dobie is the dour but heroic Andrei Bolkonsky; and David Swift is Napoleon, whose decision to invade Russia in 1812 has far-reaching consequences for Pierre and the Rostov and Bolkonsky families.
This twenty-part serial was the vision of its producer David Conroy (Portrait of a Lady, Cold Comfort Farm) whose principle aim was to transfer the rich characterisation and incident from Tolstoy's greatest novel to fifteen hours of television drama. Scripted by Jack Pulman (I Claudius, The Golden Bowl) and directed by John Davies (The Woodlanders, Germinal), Conroy's War And Peace boasts superb acting, award-winning design (1972 Best Design BAFTA) and breathtaking battle sequences which were filmed in former Yugoslavia.
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