Backed by Screen Yorkshire’s Yorkshire Content Fund
Principal photography begins in Yorkshire this week on the Heyday Films and BBC Films production of Vera Brittain’s iconic and powerful, WW1 memoir, Testament Of Youth, financed by Screen Yorkshire’s Yorkshire Content Fund. The all star cast includes Alicia Vikander (A Royal Affair, Anna Karenina), Kit Harington, (Pompeii, Game Of Thrones) Taron Egerton, (The Secret Service, Inspector Lewis) Colin Morgan, (Merlin, Doctor Who) Dominic West, (300, The Wire), Emily Watson, (The Book Thief, War Horse), Joanna Scanlan, (The Invisible Woman, Death Comes To Pemberley), Hayley Atwell, (Cinderella, Restless), Jonathan Bailey, (Broadchurch, Leonardo), Alexandra Roach, (Utopia, The Iron Lady) and Anna Chancellor (Fleming, The Hour).
Testament of Youth is financed by BBC Films, Screen Yorkshire’s Yorkshire Content Fund, BFI, Ingenious, Nordisk Film Production and LipSync. Protagonist Pictures is handling international sales and Lionsgate UK is distributing in the UK and Australia.
The film shoots in various locations around the UK including Yorkshire, Oxford and London.
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