Overview
While researching the work of author D.H. Lawrence (Kenneth Branagh), Kate (Alison Steadman) begins a romance with a fellow academic, and learns about Lawrence's love affair with the married aristocrat Frieda Von Richthofen (Helen Mirren) in this made-for-television drama. As Lawrence and Von Richthofen fall deeper into their forbidden relationship, Kate grows more familiar with Lawrence's work, such as the sensuous Lady Chatterly's Lover.
Cast
- Kenneth Branagh as D.H. Lawrence
- Helen Mirren as Frieda von Richtofen Weekley
- Alison Steadman as Kate
- Philip Martin Brown as David
- Felicity Montagu as Jessie Chambers
- Fiona Victory as Alice Dax
- Norman Rodway as William Hopkin
- Alison King as Sallie Hopkin
- Lynn Farleigh as Lydia Lawrence
- Malcolm Storry as Arthur Lawrence