History Drama Romance
Painter Dora Carrington develops an intimate but extremely complex bond with writer Lytton Strachey. Though Lytton is a homosexual, he is enchanted by the mysterious Dora and they begin a lifelong friendship that has strangely romantic undertones. Eventually, Lytton and Dora decide to live together, despite the fact that the latter has fallen in love with military man Ralph Partridge, whom she plans to marry.
Directed by
Christopher Hampton
Emma Thompson
Dora Carrington
Janet McTeer
Vanessa Bell
Jonathan Pryce
Lytton Strachey
Alex Kingston
Frances Partridge
Samuel West
Gerald Brenan
Rufus Sewell
Mark Gertler
Penelope Wilton
Lady Ottoline Morrell
Jeremy Northam
Beacus Penrose
David Ryall
Mayor
Daniel Betts
Porter
Steven Waddington
Ralph Partridge
Stephen Boxer
Military Rep
Peter Blythe
Phillip Morrell
Mark Chapman
Johnny Boy (uncredited)
Annabel Mullion
Mary Hutchinson
Richard Clifford
Clive Bell
Sebastian Harcombe
Roger Senhouse

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