< The Balkans: September 1939 (1987)

EPISODE 1.1 (Fortunes of War) | 56m | Open in IMDB | WL | ? / 7.6 (39)

Drama, War | September 1939. War breaks out as newly-married Guy and Harriet Pringle set out on a journey across Europe and into the heart of the Balkans - to Romania where an uneasy neutrality reigns.

• Director: James Cellan Jones
• Writer: Olivia Manning
• Writer: Alan Plater
• Kenneth Branagh (27) - Guy Pringle
• Emma Thompson (28) - Harriet Pringle
• Ronald Pickup (47) - Prince Yakimov
• Charles Kay (57) - Dobson
• James Villiers (54) - Inchcape
• Barry Jackson (49) - McCann
• Desmond McNamara (49) - Galpin
• Richard Clifford (32) - Lawson
• Nicolas Chagrin (42) - Ionescu
• Elena Secota - Sophie Oresanu
• Magdalena Buznea - Despina
• Vernon Dobtcheff (53) - Prince Hadjimoscos
• Mischa De La Motte (83) - Horvath
• Nicholas Amer (64) - Palu
• Caroline Langrishe (29) - Bella Niculesco
• Vladimir Mirodan - Nikko Niculesco
• Mark Drewry (32) - Dubedat
• Branko Miklavc (65) - German Refugee
• Brane Grubar (46) - Immigration Officer
• Snežana Savić (34) - Florica