Alicia Vikander and Kit Harington star in Testament of Youth, a powerful story of love, war and remembrance, based on the First World War memoir by Vera Brittain. A searing journey from youthful hopes and dreams to the edge of despair and back again, it’s a film about young love, the futility of war and how to make sense of the darkest times.
During World War I, Oxford University student Vera Brittain postpones her studies to serve as a nurse while her suitor, her brother and a secret admirer face death in the trenches.
Anchored by an extraordinary performance from actress Alicia Vikander, James Kent’s “Testament of Youth” bears comparison to many other superbly mounted costume dramas backed by the BBC, but this one has a special distinction: it chronicles the horrors that World War I inflicted on a generation of young English people from a woman’s perspective. – Godfrey Cheshire for Roger Ebert
Set at the end of the Edwardian era and during the First World War.
Starring Alicia Vikander, Kit Harington, Emily Watson, Hayley Atwell, Anna Chancellor.
Rated PG-13