With Tim Roth as Oliver Cromwell and Dougray Scott as Sir Thomas Fairfax, the film explores how the love and loyalty between two of the most fasicnating figures of the English Civil War turned to betrayal and political intrigue.
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD and will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play It takes a traitor and a hero 1645 After years of civil war King Charles I is overthrown and two heroes have emerged - Lord General Thomas Fairfax and his best friend and deputy General Oliver Cromwell Their friendship is threatened when Fairfax and his wife conspire to return the King to power and Cromwell instead orders his execution seizing control His armies spread violence and fear throughout the country and Fairfax realizes Cromwell must be stopped and their bond as two comrades-at-arms irreparably broken Actors Tim Roth Dougray Scott Olivia Williams James Bolam Corin Redgrave Finbar Lynch Julian Rhind-Tutt Adrian Scarborough Jeremy Swift & Rupert EverettDirector Mike BarkerCertificate 12 years and overYear 2003Screen Widescreen 2351Languages EnglishDuration 1 hour and 38 minutes (approx)
Mike Barker's costume drama is set 1645 when England is coming out of a civil war. The New Model Army have defeated the Royalist forces and King Charles I (Rupert Everett) is now imprisoned. General Thomas Fairfax (Dougray Scott) celebrates with his deputy Oliver Cromwell (Tim Roth) but they don't agree on what to do with the King. However, it is the more powerful of the two, Cromwell who manages to take charge and in order to indroduce his new parliamentary ideas he must put the King on trials and eventually execute him.
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