World on fire. Season one / a Mammoth Screen production for BBC ; co-produced with Masterpiece, Tetra Media Fiction and Nadcon Film ; written and created by Peter Bowker ; series producer, Chris Clough ; producers, Nickie Sault, Callum Devrell-Cameron ; directors, Adam Smith, Thomas Napper, Andy Wilson, Chanya Button.
Publisher:
PBS,
Copyright Date:
2020
Description:
3 videodiscs (approximately 420 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Title from container. Julia Brown, Yrsa Daley-Ward, Arthur Darvill, Blake Harrison, Jonah Hauer-King, Patrick Kennedy, Tomasz Kot, Agata Kulesza, Victoria Mayer, Ewan Mitchell, Max Riemelt, Parker Sawyers, Brian J. Smith, Zofia Wichłacz, Mateusz Wichławek, Johannes Zeiler, Sean Bean, Lesley Manville, Helen Hunt. Originally broadcast on PBS television as individual episodes in 2019-2020. Wide screen.
Summer 1939. Harry, a translator at the British Embassy in Warsaw, is falling in love with Polish waitress Kasia. When German tanks roll into Poland, and Britain declares war on Germany, Harry and Kasia face terrible choices. With her life in grave danger, can Harry help her, and if he can, how will he ever explain himself to Lois Bennett, the girl he left behind in Manchester?
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