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Director: |
David Giles
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Starring: |
Eric Porter, Kenneth More, Susan Hampshire, John Welsh, Margaret Tyzack, Lana Morris
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Genres: |
Television, Drama Classics, Epics, Great Literature on Film, Period Drama, Romantic Drama, UK Classics
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Origin: |
United Kingdom
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Certificate: |
PG
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Languages: |
English
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Running Time: |
198 min
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VOLUME 5:
As the century approaches its end, so do the lives of the more senior Forsytes. Jo's wife, Helene, dies from a fall, before madness destroys her mind, and Jo himself begins to see more of Irene. Soames, meanwhile, desperate for an heir, wants a divorce from Irene, and his sister, Winifred, seeks the same from her husband, after he elopes with a Spanish dancer.
The lives of a new generation of Forsytes start to take shape, but the recurring conflicts of love and personal animosity carry their bittersweet legacies uncompromisingly towards the twentieth century.
VOLUME 6:
"So the feud goes on into the third generation", says Jo, as one century makes way for another. The Boer War draws the younger Forsytes into its web: Jo's son Jolly and Val Dartie enlist for the army - their dislike for each other growing in intensity; while June and Holly also volunteer as nurses, though each for different reasons.
Jo's blossoming liaison with Irene gives Soames the evidence for a divorce, and as the old Queen ends her days, marriages, births and deaths continue to shape the destiny of the Forsyte family.
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