PARADE'S END [BLU-RAY] [IMPORT]

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• Release Year: 2012
• Genre: Action, Drama, Romance
• Plot: Set over a tumultuous ten year period in th eearly 20th Century, thjis five hour HBO miniseries tells th estory of an honourable Englishman coping with his growing disillusion at the end of a privileged era and the beginning of a new, egalitariansociety. As the comfortable certainties of Edardian England begin to give way to the chaos and destruction of WW1, nobleman Christopher Tietjens (Benedict Cumberbatch) puts principles first by marrying Sylvia (Rebecca Hall), a pretty, mnaipulative socialite who gives birth to a child who may not be his. Christopher edures his new wife's whims and overt indiscretions, forseeing a cold future with Sylvia at his family's palatial estate, Groby. He finds himself inexorably drawn to a young sufragette, Valentine Wannop (Adelaide Clemens), but refuses to give in to their mutual passion or end his marriage with Sylvia, who is altrnatley infuriated and infatuated by her incorruptible husband. Th eonset of war, combined with the advent of feminism at home, ushers in Far-reaching changes for th eEnglish status quo, gradually eroding the constraints that have kept Christopher tethered to his aristocratic past.
• Cast: Benedict Cumberbatch, Rebecca Hall, Roger Allam, Adelaide Clemens, Rupert Everett, Miranda Richardson, Sasha Waddell, Janet McTeer, Clare Higgins, Tom Mison, Stephen Graham, Malcolm Sinclair, Anne-Marie Duff, Ned Dennehy, Anna Skellern, Lucinda Raikes, Sylvestra Le Touzel, Alan Howard, Jonathan Coy, Candida Benson, Jack Huston, Rufus Sewell, Freddie Fox, Susanna White, Ford Madox Ford, Tom Stoppard
• Director: Susanna White
• Runtime: 5:00
• Company: HBO Home Entertainment, BBC, Mammoth Screen
• Media Format: Series