Nøkkelord Bucharest Romania

Den tidligere elitesoldaten John Tolliver stjeler et Van Gogh maleri ved en feiltakelse under et stort kupp på et kasino. Det blir partneren hans, Kelly Anders, som får skylden og da russiske gangstere på jakt etter maleriet kidnapper henne, er det kun John som kan redde henne.

Fortunes of War is a 1987 BBC television adaptation of Olivia Manning's cycle of novels Fortunes of War. It stars Kenneth Branagh as Guy Pringle, lecturer in English Literature in Bucharest during the early part of the Second World War, and Emma Thompson as his wife Harriet. Other cast members included Ronald Pickup, Robert Stephens, Alan Bennett, Philip Madoc and Rupert Graves. The series stays relatively faithful to the original novels, with no notable departures from their plot.

A young mother's life is upended when she finds herself hiding behind a secret identity to escape the Bucharest gang responsible for her fiancé's death.