Jane Birkin in a 1967 TV drama? Your obscure cinema obsession starts HERE.
A politically-active couple's involvement in an election campaign threatens their marriage through personal entanglements with the candidate and other campaigners.
Acting
Birkin's pre-Gainsbourg dramatic chops deserve rediscovery.
Direction
Haggard's intimate staging maximizes claustrophobic domestic tension.
Director
Piers Haggard
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Armchair Theatre was ITV's answer to BBC's prestige drama, launching Haggard's career toward The Flame Trees of Thika.
This aired months before Birkin met Serge Gainsbourg; her dramatic work here rarely gets mentioned in her iconography.
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