Rent Enemy at the Door (1980)
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The only piece of British soil to be occupied by the Germans during World War II, the Channel Islands are the setting for 'Enemy at the Door' - a gripping and sometimes harrowing account of the appalling dilemmas and daily hardships faced by the Islanders living under Nazi rule. Focussing particularly on the experience of the Martels, a Guernsey family, this acclaimed series stars Bernard Horsfall as Dr. Philip Martel, with Alfred Burke (Public Eye) as Major Richter and Simon Cadell as the brutal, ambitious SS Hauptsturmfuhrer Reinicke. This complete-series set contains every episode of Enemy at the Door, originally screened between 1978 and 1980 and produced by Michael Chapman (The Bill) and Tony Wh'armby (Supernatural, Bones). - Actors:
- Alfred Burke, Bernard Horsfall, Antonia Pemberton, Simon Cadell, Simon Lack, John Malcolm, Richard Heffer, Emily Richard, Helen Shingler, David Waller, Peter Holt, Sandy Sinclair, Keith Hazemore, Pauline Minear, Ken Barker, Jason James, Mark Christon, Martin Jacobs, Norma Streader, Anthony Head
- Directors:
- Bill Bain, Jonathan Alwyn, Christopher Hodson, Martyn Friend, Tony Wharmby, Mike Vardy, Terence Williams
- Producers:
- Michael Chapman, Jonathan Alwyn
- Writers:
- Robert Barr, John Brason, Michael Chapman, Kenneth Clark, N.J. Crisp, James Doran, James Andrew Hall, John Kershaw
- Studio:
- Network
- Genres:
- British TV, TV Action & Adventure, TV Classics, TV Dramas, TV Military & War Dramas, TV Political
- Collections:
- British WWII Films: The Home Front and Europe, Drama Films & TV
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Reviews (2) of Enemy at the Door
Good series. Should of made series 3... - Enemy at the Door review by OL
Set in WW2 Guernsey it charts the occupation from collaboration, fraternisation etc which occurs in occupied countries. This is not an action series but a series about the lives of the Islanders.
Surprisingly good WW2 drama - Enemy at the Door review by Martyn
Each episode is a self-contained drama unlike soaps which have several parallel plots running through each episode without conclusion. The main characters run throughout. The viewer gets to know them more deeply as the series progresses. Mostly, the stories are tragedy, with ordinary decent people sometimes being sent to horrific prisons or losing their lives. The Germans are portrayed sympathetically and individually, most of them trying to limit the damage to the locals and get through the war in one piece.
Every word is clearly enunciated, almost a stage delivery. At the risk of sounding old-fashioned, that is something you don't get in contemporary films where they mumble realistically but incomprehensibly. And the words are worth listening to - intelligent dialogue throughout.