“Fortunes of War” is not a typical World War II love story. It does not take place in London or Paris but in Bucharest, Athens, and Egypt. The main characters are not young lovers, they are English newlyweds whose relationship can be as cold as the war is hot.
The show premieres tonight at 8 on Channels 50 and 24 and continues next Sunday at the same time on Channels 28 and 15. It’s a seven-part BBC production that adapted “The Balkan Trilogy” and “The Levant Trilogy,” by Olivia Manning. As drama, it is far from perfect, but as addictive entertainment, this thing knows no peer.
ABC’s “The Winds of War” was the champ of epic scale and budget excess (there will be a sequel called “War and Remembrance”). But nobody does World War II like the British.
It is 1939. The Orient Express is rumbling toward Eastern Europe under darkening skies, carrying Guy and Harriet Pringle (Kenneth Branagh and Emma Thompson), who are starting their marriage with more than average amounts of both danger and mystery in their backgrounds. He is taking her to Bucharest, where he teaches at the university; where the Nazis’ forerunners, the fascist Iron Guard, were becoming strong two years before Hitler took power.
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