Private Peaceful

Oct 12, 2012

1h 40m

★ 6.6

Divided by love - United by war.

Overview

Set in the fields of Devon and the WW1 battlefields of Flanders, two brothers fall for the same girl while contending with the pressures of their feudal family life, the war, and the price of courage and cowardice.

Genres

Drama

Romance

War

Production Companies

Fluidity Films

Private Peaceful Trailers

Cast

Charlie Peaceful

Jack O'Connell

Tommo Peaceful

George MacKay

The Colonel

Richard Griffiths

Grandma Wolf

Frances de la Tour

Hazel Peaceful

Maxine Peake

Molly Monks

Alexandra Roach

Sergeant Hanley

John Lynch

Recruiting Sergeant

Anthony Flanagan

Captain Wilkins

Paul Ready

Anna

Eline Powell

Major Fitzpatrick

James Laurenson

James Peaceful

Stephen Kennedy

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