Parade's end (Television program)

Parade's end / HBO Miniseries presents in association with the BBC ; a Mammoth Screen production ; written by Tom Stoppard ; executive producers, Michele Buck, Damien Timmer ; produced by David Parfitt and Selwyn Roberts ; directed by Susanna White ; executive producers, Ben Donald, Simon Vaughan, Judith Louis and Tom Stoppard ; in association with Trademark Films and BBC Worldwide and Lookout Point.

[New York, N.Y.] : Home Box Office, Inc., [2013]

Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, [2013]

©2013

2 videodiscs (approximately 300 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

DVD video 4 3/4 in.

Set over a tumultuous ten-year period in the early 20th century, this five-hour miniseries tells the story of an honorable Englishman coping with his growing disillusion at the end of a privileged era and the beginning of a new, egalitarian society. As the comfortable certainties of Edwardian England begin to give way to the chaos and destruction of WWI, nobleman Christopher Tietjens puts principles first by marrying Sylvia, a pretty, manipulative socialite who gives birth to a child who may not be his. Christopher endures his new wife's whims and overt indiscretions, foreseeing a cold future with Sylvia at his family's palatial estate, Groby Hall. He finds himself inexorably drawn to a young suffragette, Valentine Wannop, but refuses to give in to their mutual passion or end his marriage with Sylvia, who is alternately infuriated and infatuated by her incorruptible husband. The onset of war, combined with the advent of feminism at home, ushers in far-reaching changes for the English status quo, gradually eroding the constraints that have kept Christopher tethered to his aristocratic past.

Images / Video & Film

English; French; Spanish

October 23, 2017

Costume designer, Sheena Napier ; composer, Dirk Brossé ; production designer, Martin Childs ; film editors, Jason Krasucki, Kristina Hetherington, Tim Murrell ; director of photography, Mike Eley ; art direction by Nick Dent, Merijn Sep, Huw Arthur, James Wakefield ; set decoration by Barbara Herman-Skelding.

Benedict Cumberbatch, Rebecca Hall, Roger Allam, Adelaide Clemens, Ned Dennehy, Anne-Marie Duff, Rupert Everett, Stephen Graham, Clare Higgins, Alan Howard, Jack Huston, Denis Lawson, Sylvestra Le Touzel, Tim McMullan, Janet McTeer, Tom Mison, Miranda Richardson, Rufus Sewell, Malcolm Sinclair, Anna Skellern, Sasha Waddell.

DVD, NTSC, region 1, widescreen (16:9) presentation; Dolby Digital 5.1 surround (English and French) and 2.0 (Spanish).

TV rating: TV-MA ; Canadian Home Video rating: 18A.