In Love and War
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
John Kent Harrison
Callum Blue
Barbora Bobulova
Peter Bowles
Nick Reding
John Warnaby
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
Television movie based on the book by Eric Newby that tells the true story of a captured British soldier and an Italian woman who fall in love in Italy during World War II. Newby's life is saved by the heroic actions of this courageous young woman and a small, brave group of Italian farmers and villagers.On the morning of August 12, 1942, while returning from a daring commando raid on an airfield jammed with German bombers, Eric Newby and four fellow members of Britain's eilite SBS (Special Boat Section) unit were captured in Italy. The and hundreds of other Allied POWs were imprisoned in what has been an orphanage in the small town of Fontanellato near Parma. When the Italian Armistice occurred in September 1943, Newby and his jailed compatriots were released, but their freedom was short-lived; Germany's cracK P16th Panzer Division began ruthlessly searching them out.Thanks to the Nazi-defying efforts of villagers and farmers in and around Fontanellato, Newby successfuuly avoided being recaptured for three months. Among the many who literally risked their lives to protect and hide Newby (and others) was Wanda Skof, the daughter of a Slovenian anti-fascist, who taught him Italian, smuggled him food and buoyed his spirits during the frightening game of cat-and-mouse played with the Nazis. Newby and Skof slowly, almost imperceptibly, fell in love during those three months.
Director
John Kent Harrison
Cast
Callum Blue
Barbora Bobulova
Peter Bowles
Nick Reding
John Warnaby
Toby Jones
Robert Weatherby
Nicholas Gallagher
Mark Whiteley
Maurizio Donadoni
Rosa Pianeta
Bianca Nappi
Emanuela Macchniz
Silvia De Santis
Roberto Nobile
Madalena Nedeva
Giorgio Cantarini
Oreste Rotundo
Nicola Pannelli
Marco Quaglia
Massimo Sarchielli
Orazio Stracuzzi
Rosa Dibrigida
Franco Ravera
Giacomo Piperno
Hermann Weiskopf
Jan Stahlberg
Helmut Hagen
Mario Erpichini
Victoria Zinny
Giacomo Gonnella
Giuseppe Oppedisano
Roberta Fiorentini
Marcus Cottorell
Gabriele Parrillo
Ralph Palka
Chiara Stampone
Sabrina Sirchia
Crew
Barbara Abseck
Cecilia Alvarenga
Rick Ash
Emilio Baldelli
Bernard Bats
Tony Brandt
Kevin R. Buxbaum
Giacomo Calo'carducci
Todd Carter
Nino Centurion
Romano Chessari
Francesco Chianese
Leo Davis
Gino Derossi
Gabriella Disanto
Stefano Falivene
Stefano Falvene
Giovanni Fiore Coltellacci
Charlotte C G A Fontijn
Stanislao Galasso
Andrew Gottlieb
Stephen Grubbs
Veronica Hadfield
Enrico Iacoponi
Lynn Kressel
Beatrice Kruger
Giovanni Lovatelli
Giovanni Lovatelli
Micheala Marino
Susan J Marks
Pasqual Martino
John Mortimer
Marcello Negretti
Ellen Nesselrode
Eric Newby
Michael Ornstein
Barbara Pastrovich
Russ Patrick
Nicola Piovani
Steve Sahagun
Mauro Sangiorgi
Brent Shields
Kathleen Straub
Mauro Tamagnini
Andrea Viotti
Karen Mayeda Vranek
Richard Welsh
Film Details
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Miscellaneous Notes
Released in United States on Video February 26, 2002
Aired in United States November 18, 2001
Telecast as a presentation of "Hallmark Hall of Fame."
Completed shooting October 25, 2000.
Began shooting September 11, 2000.
