This tells the story of Lord Fairfax and Oliver Cromwell, two rebel leaders during the English Civil war in the 1640s. The rose up against the King, who claimed to rule by divine appointment. However, once the battles were fought, the politics began, and Fairfax finds himself torn between his loyalty to his friend Cromwell, his love for his royalist sympathising wife, and his fear for his own life and that of his unborn child. The film is less than perfectly balanced between the many themes which it addresses, but is an interesting comment on a period of history not much covered on film in recent years.
Review of To Kill a King
