Private Peaceful
2012 · Movie · 100 min. · United Kingdom
A classic rites of passage story of two brothers and the exuberance and pain of their teenage love for the same girl, the pressures of their feudal family life, the horrors and folly of war and the ultimate price of courage and cowardice. Private Peaceful is an independent British production of Michael Morpurgo's classic rites of passage story of two brothers and the exuberance and pain of their teenage love for the same girl, the pressures of their feudal family life, the horrors and folly of war and the ultimate price of courage and cowardice. It is a gritty and realistic tale of love and death set in the fields of Devon and the WW1 battlefields of Flanders, giving us a heartbreaking glimpse of the way we once lived – and still die. It will be released in UK in late 2012.
Direction Pat O'Connor
Cast Richard Griffiths · Jack O'Connell · Frances de la Tour · George MacKay · Alexandra Roach · John Lynch · Maxine Peake
Soundtrack Rachel Portman
Screenplay Simon Reade · Michael Morpurgo
Cinematography Jerzy Zielinski
Original title Private Peaceful
5.4
167 votes (FilmAffinity)
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