A love story offering an intimate look inside the marriage of Winston and Clementine Churchill during a particularly troubled, though little-known, moment in their lives.
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The people behind it
Albert Finney
Winston Churchill
Vanessa Redgrave
Clemmie Churchill
Jim Broadbent
Desmond Morton
Linus Roache
Ralph Wigram
Lena Headey
Ava Wigram
Tom Wilkinson
Sir Robert Vansittart
Derek Jacobi
Stanley Baldwin
Celia Imrie
Violet Pearman
Hugh Bonneville
Ivo Pettifer
Tom Hiddleston
Randolph Churchill
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