Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

Birdsong [videorecording] / a WTTV Working Title Television/Masterpiece co-production with NBC Universal for the BBC ; producer, Lynn Horsford ; screenplay by Abi Morgan ; director, Philip Martin.

Publisher, Date:

[United States] : PBS, 2012.

Description:

1 videodisc (165 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Summary:

Birdsong is the story of Stephen Wraysford, a young Englishman who arrives in Amiens in Northern France to stay with the Azaire family and falls desperately in love with Isabelle Azaire. They begin an illicit and all-consuming affair, but the relationship falters. Years later, Stephen finds himself serving on the Western Front in the very area where he experienced his great love. He must learn to endure the ravages of war and make peace with his feelings for Isabelle.

Target Audience Note:

Rating: Not rated.

Subjects:

Man-woman relationships -- Drama.

War -- Drama.

Television series.

War television programs.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Other Author:

Redmayne, Eddie, 1982-

Poésy, Clémence.

Mawle, Joseph, 1974-