A love story offering an intimate look inside the marriage of Winston and Clementine Churchill during a particularly troubled, though little-known, moment in their lives.
Acting
Finney's Churchill is volcanic; Redgrave matches him whisper for whisper.
Direction
Loncraine makes parliamentary procedure feel like a heist thriller.
Director
Richard Loncraine
Albert Finney
Winston Churchill
Vanessa Redgrave
Clemmie Churchill
Jim Broadbent
Desmond Morton
Linus Roache
Ralph Wigram
Lena Headey
Ava Wigram
Tom Wilkinson
Sir Robert Vansittart
Derek Jacobi
Stanley Baldwin
Celia Imrie
Violet Pearman
Hugh Bonneville
Ivo Pettifer
Tom Hiddleston
Randolph Churchill
Ronnie Barker
David Inches
Gottfried John
Friedrich von Schroder
Anthony Brophy
Brendan Bracken
Edward Hardwicke
Mr. Wood
Tim Bentinck
Marlborough
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Finney gained 30 pounds and wore prosthetics for 4 hours daily; he and Redgrave had never worked together despite 40+ year careers.
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