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.

• DirectorPeter Barber-Fleming
• Release27 December 1985
• Genre
  Romance / Drama
• Duration1h 20m
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• Rate
  

  4.8
  4 reviews
• Productions

  ITV Central