
Private Peaceful(2012)
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.


The story of a long-lost book that mysteriously reappears and connects an old man searching for his son with a girl seeking a cure for her mother's loneliness.

Derek Jacobi
Leopold Gursky

Sophie Nélisse
Alma Singer

Gemma Arterton
Alma Mereminski

Elliott Gould
Bruno Leibovitch

Torri Higginson
Charlotte Singer

Mark Rendall
Young Leopold Gursky

Corneliu Ulici
Young Bruno Leibovitch

William Ainscough
Bird Singer

Alex Ozerov-Meyer
Misha Strumann

Jamie Bloch
Zoey Schwartz
The History of Love is a drama, romance, war film released in 2016. Directed by Radu Mihăileanu, it stars Derek Jacobi, Sophie Nélisse, Gemma Arterton. The story of a long-lost book that mysteriously reappears and connects an old man searching for his son with a girl seeking a cure for her mother's loneliness.
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