
A Farewell to Arms(1957)
An English nurse and an American soldier on the Italian front during World War I fall in love, but the horrors surrounding them test their romance to the limit.


“Divided by love - United by war.”
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.

Jack O'Connell
Charlie Peaceful

George MacKay
Tommo Peaceful

Richard Griffiths
The Colonel

Frances de la Tour
Grandma Wolf

Maxine Peake
Hazel Peaceful

Alexandra Roach
Molly Monks

John Lynch
Sergeant Hanley

Anthony Flanagan
Recruiting Sergeant

Paul Ready
Captain Wilkins

Eline Powell
Anna
Private Peaceful is a drama, romance, war film released in 2012 exploring themes of bomb, world war i, gas attack, post world war i, soldier, period drama. Directed by Pat O'Connor, it stars Jack O'Connell, George MacKay, Richard Griffiths. 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.
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