Vera Brittain's amazing memoir, Testament of Youth, has received another movie adaptation, which is due out in 2015. Starring Game of Thrones heartthrob Kit Harington and Swedish actress Alicia Vikander (Anna Karenina, A Royal Affair) as a young couple in love, torn apart by World War I, this new take on the dramatic true story of Brittain's life is definitely one of the most anticipated films of next year. This week, we were treated to a new trailer for the movie. Check it out right here!
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Vikander portrays Brittain, with Harington taking on the role of her love interest and eventual fiancé, Roland Leighton. Brittain's memoir is considered one of the first accounts of WWI from the point of view of a woman, which, needless to say, has gone on to inspire other writers to fictionalize the war in other novels.
As we can see from this magnificent new trailer, we're in for quite the harrowing ride. Check it out right here:
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Here is the official synopsis of the film (via Slash Film):
Based on the classic First World War memoir, this is the incredible true story of one young woman's struggle to survive the horrors of war, which robbed her of everyone and everything she held dear, but was ultimately unable to break her extraordinary spirit. Vera Brittain, irrepressible, intelligent and free-minded, overcomes the prejudices of her family and hometown to win a scholarship to Oxford. With everything to live for, she falls in love with her brother's close friend Roland Leighton as they go to University to pursue their literary dreams. But the First World War is looming and as the boys leave for the front Vera realises she cannot sit idly by as her peers fight for their country, so volunteers as a nurse. She works tirelessly, experiencing all the grief of war, as one by one her fiancé, her brother and their closest friends are all killed and the pillars of her world shattered. But, an indefatigable spirit, Vera endures and returns to Oxford, irrevocably changed, yet determined to create a world in which such a war can never take place again.
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