Charles II - The Power and the Passion Details

Charles II - The Power and the Passion

One of the better BBC costume dramas of recent years, 2003's Charles II: The Power and the Passion depends very strongly on its central performance. Fortunately, Rufus Sewell is admirable throughout as the saturnine, witty monarch who has retained popular fondness down the centuries in spite of his conscientious adherence to the bad and losing cause of absolute monarchy.

Adrian Hodge's intelligent script dramatises the issue in quick sound bites--many politicians accepted the Restoration to avoid chaos and were determined to bring Charles to heel, whereas he was determined to defend the position for which his father had been martyred. If that meant handing the throne to his Catholic brother in default of a legitimate son of his own, so be it.

Starring	Rufus Sewell, Rupert Graves, Charlie Creed-Miles, Christian Coulson, Shirley Henderson
Director	Joe Wright
Studio	Just
Run time	DVD: 3 hrs 8 mins
Certificate
Genres	Drama, Romance, Television
Language	DVD: English
Subtitles	DVD: Dutch
Released	Production year: 2003 To Rent: DVD: not available