All truly MODERN period classics of UK TV
All 4 drama series + docu-series HIGHLY RECOMMENDED. I OWN ALL, WOULD NEVER PART WITH THEM. SERIES THAT GET VIEW MULTIPLE TIMES. Is that strong enough of an endorsement for this collection?
Doctor Zhivago
Keira Knightley (Lara) states in the bonus interview, it's too good a story and today's generation won't pick up a 3-4 decade old film to view. So the Brit TV miniseries became as classic as the book and 1965 film. This miniseries focuses on characters more than the politics. Lara is a young girl with an awakening sensuality, who's loved by 3 men, whom she returns love in a form with each. First lover, Komarovsky (Sam Neill) also used her Lara's mom. Lara married Pasha, revolutionist. Truest love seemed to be Dr. Yury (Hans Matheson) also poet. Yury also loves his wife, sibling Tonya, creating his own triangle affair. Yury's best friend, Misha, loves Tonya too. It is the conflict between relationships, and how that conflicts with a Bolshevik uprising, that drives this...
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