Downton Abbey's war wounds with zero budget and maximum British repression.
Spring 1917: the privileged world of Sorn Castle is upside down, its stately rooms full of amputees from the Western Front. While the local aristocracy makes a first attempt at nursing, a romance blossoms.
Acting
Antony Sher's trembling restraint as the broken Captain.
Production
Cramped castle corridors that breathe claustrophobia.
Director
Richard Wilson
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Richard Wilson later became famous as Victor Meldrew in 'One Foot in the Grave'—imagine THAT energy directing this.
Made for BBC2's 'Screenplay' strand, this typifies 1990s British television's obsession with revisiting WWI through domestic spaces rather than trenches.
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