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.

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Cast

Kenneth Branagh

D.H. Lawrence

Helen Mirren

Frieda von Richtofen Weekley

Alison Steadman

Kate

Philip Martin Brown

David

Fiona Victory

Alice Dax

Norman Rodway

William Hopkin

Lynn Farleigh

Lydia Lawrence

Malcolm Storry

Arthur Lawrence