First Poster For Testament Of Youth

Kit Harington and Alicia Vikander go off to War

First Poster For Testament Of Youth

by Helen O'Hara |
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The first volume of author Vera Brittain's memoirs, Testament Of Youth, focuses on her experiences in World War I and has become something of a classic of the wartime literary genre. Alicia Vikander and Kit Harington star in the film adaptation for James Kent, and we have the first poster here.

Now if that isn't a classic pose that signals romantical problems in wartime, we don't know what is. There's the train station, the rushing crowd and the impossibly handsome young lovers - Vera herself (Vikander) and fiance Roland (Harington) about to be torn apart as he heads to the Front and she takes up her wartme work as a Voluntary Aid Detachment nurse working in England, France and Malta.

Also starring are Taron Egerton as Brittain's brother Edward, who introduces the lovers; Dominic West and Emily Watson as her parents, and support from the likes of Hayley Atwell, Anna Chancellor, Colin Morgan and Miranda Richardson. Director James Kent has done oodles of work on TV, notably on miniseries The White Queen, and makes his feature debut here. Testament Of Youth opens on January 16, 2015, but will be screening at the BFI London Film Festival this week.

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