Birdsong
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Birdsong is a drama series starring Eddie Redmayne and Clemence Poesy as passionate young lovers Stephen and Isabelle, brought together by love and then finding themselves being torn apart by the outbreak of the First World War. The series is an adaptation of Sebastian Faulks's modern classic of the same name.
Eddie Redmayne | Stephen Wraysford | |
Matthew Goode | Captain Gray | |
Clemence Poesy | Isabelle Azaire | |
Richard Madden | Captain Weir | |
Daniel Cerqueira | Shaw | |
Marie-Josée Croze | Jeanne | |
Joseph Mawle | Jack Firebrace | |
Rory Keenan | Private Brennan | |
Thomas Turgoose | Private Tipper | |
Nicholas Moss | RSM Price | |
Paul Rattray | Tyson | |
Matthew Aubrey | Private Byrne | |
David Monteath | ||
Simon Nehan | Evans | |
Piroska Molnár | Marguerite | |
Misi Dunai | Riley | |
George MacKay | Private Douglas | |
Declan Hannigan | Military Medic | |
Laurent Lafitte | René Azaire | |
Bálint Antal | Hunt | |
Anthony Andrews | Colonel Barclay | |
Kevin Griffiths | Padre Horrocks | |
Sean McKenzie | Turner | |
Patrice Thibaud | Monsieur Bérard | |
Lajos Kalmár | Burn Boy |
Director | Philip Martin | |
Writer | Sebastian Faulks, Abi Morgan | |
Producer | Juliette Howell, Simon Relph, Lucy Richer, Ann Skinner, Tim Bevan, Veronica Castillo, Rebecca Eaton, Sebastian Faulks, Eric Fellner, Lynn Horsford | |
Musician | Nicholas Hooper | |
Photography | Julian Court |
In the trenches in 1916 Stephen Wraysford recalls how,six years earlier aged twenty,he was staying in Amiens with the Azaire family whilst studying draughtsmanship at the unsympathetic Rene Azaire's factory. Rene's hardness has brought his workers out on strike and Rene's younger wife Isabelle takes food to the starving families. Stephen is attracted to her and they begin an affair,leaving Amiens when they are found out. Back in the trenches Stephen is seen as aloof and a loner,his only friend being Captain Michael Weir,an engineer in charge of digging tunnels to plant explosives under the German lines.Michael's best worker is the popular miner Jack Firebrace and,when Stephen catches Jack asleep on sentry duty,Michael persuades him not to press for the man's court-martial. Forced to join the tunnellers Stephen is appalled by their working conditions and,after a confrontation with the Germans,he is left for dead,his body being rescued from the rows of corpses by Jack Firebrace.
Stephen recovers in hospital and returns to the army camp at Amiens. Here he comforts a drunk Jack,desolate after the death of his young son. He also reencounters Isabelle who,after an idyllic few months with him,left to return to her children. She is widowed and wounded by the war and not especially welcoming. Next day an ill-conceived attack on the German trenches wipes out scores of British soldiers and Stephen is again wounded. Two years later he learns that Isabelle has died,weakened by her injuries. He takes part in another abortive task to tunnel under German lines but the whole party is killed except him and Jack,who,despite Stephen's efforts to keep him alive,dies,stating that all there is in life is to love and be loved. Soon after that the war ends and Stephen visits Isabelle's sister Jeanne,who is raising Isabelle's youngest child. Stephen is the father and he prepares to introduce himself to the little girl.
Location | HDD 25 |
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Quantity | 1 |
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Added Date | Jul 09, 2014 14:56:15 |
Modified Date | Feb 18, 2023 15:32:47 |