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Based on the memoir by Vera Brittain, TESTAMENT OF YOUTH is a story of how one woman's world was upended by a war that changed the world and defined a generation. Alicia Vikander plays Brittain, a young woman who bucked convention and began making her way through the world, embracing education, possibility and romance, before it is all changed by the arrival of World War I.
The film comes from director James Kent, who has primarily worked in television until now, directing episodes of EASTENDERS, MARCHLANDS and INSIDE MEN. It also boasts an impressive supporting cast, including Kit Harrington, Dominic West, Hayley Atwell, Emily Watson, and Miranda Richardson.
TESTAMENT OF YOUTH is set to open in the U.K. on January 16th. Hopefully, we will be seeing a U.S. release date before too long.
What do you guys think?
Intelligent and free-spirited Vera overcomes the narrow-mindedness of her conservative parents, winning a scholarship to Oxford. Entranced by her brother’s dashing friend Roland, who shares her literary aspirations, she plunges into an intoxicating romance. Blooming, in love and on the cusp of fulfilling her ambitions, Vera’s dreams are brutally shattered by the onset of war. When Roland and her brother ship out to the front, she abandons the cloistered environs of university life and volunteers as a nurse. Immediately confronted with the pitiless reality of the war’s victims, her life is irrevocably changed as she loses, one-by-one, the young men she held so dear.
