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Nov 11, 2016 · BBC Two’s Close to the Enemy is set in war-damaged London, following a set of characters whose lives were changed forever by the second World War. Here’s what you need to know. 1) It’s from...
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Close to the Enemy: With Jim Sturgess, Lucy Ward, Charlotte Riley, August Diehl. A British intelligence officer has to ensure that a captured German scientist helps the British develop jet aircraft.
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Close to the Enemy. It is the end of WWII and Captain Callum Ferguson is assigned one final task for the Army: to ensure that a captured German scientist, Dieter, helps the British to...
- Jim Sturgess - Callum Ferguson
- Freddie Highmore – Victor Ferguson
- Charlotte Riley – Rachel Lombard
- Phoebe Fox – Kathy Griffiths
- Alfie Allen – Ringwood
- Alfred Molina – Harold Lindsay-Jones
- Angela Bassett – Eva
- Robert Glenister – Brigadier Wainwright
- Lindsay Duncan – Frau Bellinghausen
He’s the British intelligence officer who is at the centre of the story. He is given the task of looking after a very important German scientist and overcoming his implacable hostility towards working with the British. On the surface Callum is an able and decisive officer but underneath he is more fragile. He has experienced some of the worst fight...
Callum’s brother, a highly strung and very volatile young man. Like Callum he has experienced some intense combat during the war and now, as with so many returning servicemen, he is trying to cope with these memories and to start a new life. In 1946 the medical profession’s approach to post-traumatic stress disorder was much more primitive than it ...
Rachel is an American in London whose husband died suddenly and left her a fortune. She is remarried to Alex (Sebastian Armesto), Callum’s best friend from before the war. Alex spent almost the whole war in Washington and is very conscious of how people regard this. Those British citizens who sat out the war in the US, and therefore escaped the ter...
She’s the feisty, highly committed Nazi hunter who is pitted against Callum in the story. Although the most senior Nazis were standing trial in Nuremberg, thousands of others were escaping justice. This was mainly due to the chaotic processing of prisoners in Germany, which was often carried out by young officers who were not concerned about rootin...
Ringwood is the intelligence officer running the secret operation in the hotel’s attic. During the war the British were pioneers in bugging people’s rooms, especially captured German officers, and some vital information was gathered this way. The technology was regarded as so crucial it was kept secret for years. Ringwood and his staff are now empl...
Harold is a mysterious Foreign Office official who seems to delight in spending time at the Connington and probing into Callum’s world. He has an ulterior motive, which Callum eventually discovers. The story that Harold shares with Callum, and which he wants him to pursue further, revolves around a secret at the heart of government and is based on ...
Eva is an American singer who rules over the basement ballroom. She is in Britain because she can’t get work in the US – her left-wing views and refusal to play to segregated audiences has made her lose bookings there. The character of Eva is inspired by the singer Hazel Scott, who took a celebrated stand against segregation, and had to move to Eur...
He’s a military man in charge of getting scientific geniuses out of Germany before the Americans and Russians get to them. “It was a race amongst the allies to get the most acute scientific minds to come over to their specific countries and divulge their secrets. He is quite a clever strategist because he understands that if they don’t get this inf...
Frau Bellinghausen makes her entrance halfway through the story. She is the owner of a famous perfume brand and Callum is set the task of getting her to reveal its secret formula. In 1946 even something as seemingly trivial as the ingredients of perfume was of interest to the British authorities. They wanted to gain a commercial advantage over othe...
Nov 9, 2016 · Alfred Molina was delighted to be cast as a posh, yet enigmatic hotel guest called Harold in Close to the Enemy, Stephen Poliakoff’s epic new BBC2 drama about the desperate, traumatised...
Oct 14, 2016 · BBC Two's flagship period drama, Close To The Enemy, by multi award-winning writer and director Stephen Poliakoff will air this November.
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Nov 11, 2016 · Close to the Enemy (★) is set in London just after the end of World War Two, and happens to feature a jazz band with a black singer who perform in a once-swanky hotel somewhat gone to seed. Many have pondered over the way the BBC likes to shovel hefty chunks of the licence fee in Poliakoff's direction, and their doubts may not be assuaged by ...
