It's All Relative - Colin & Jonathan Firth

I've been remiss in adding these brothers to the gallery of "It's All Relative". Colin Firth is the definitive period drama gent and his brother Jonathan has also appeared in a number of period dramas! Here are some of the costume dramas in which the Firth brothers have appeared...

Some of Colin's period films...(See longer list here)

Pride & Prejudice, Importance of Being Earnest, Girl with a Pearl Earring, Easy Virtue

Month in the Country, 'Shakespeare' in Blackadder, Shakespeare in Love, Circle of Friends


Jonathan's period films...

Victoria & Albert, Pompeii, Romeo & Juliet, Middlemarch, Luther

Jonathan Firth's period dramas: Victoria & Albert, Middlemarch, Albert Schweitzer, An Ideal Husband, Pompeii: The Last Day, Luther, Inspector Lynley, Far From the Madding Crowd, Agatha's Christie Poirot, Covington Cross, Wuthering Heights, The Black Velvet Gown, and Romeo and Juliet (I didn't realize that he was Romeo to Geraldine Somerville's Juliet)

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Albert Schweitzer (2009)

A movie about the "jungle doctor" Albert Schweitzer (Jeroen Krabbé) tells the story of a philosopher and physician who promoted peace during the Cold War, built a hospital in what is now Gabon and proved stronger than the CIA. "Avoiding the pitfalls of the biopic genre, the film refrains from squeezing all aspects of the life of the German-French philosopher, musicologist, organist, theologian and physician Albert Schweitzer into a cinematic puzzle.

British director Gavin Millar focuses instead on a few crucial years of Schweitzer’s life: the period from 1949 to 1954, the year in which he received the Nobel Peace Prize for his philosophy of the "reverence for life."

The film also includes a flashback to the time before World War I, when Schweitzer built a hospital in Gabon at a time when there was a lack of everything – beds, nurses, medicines and bandages. His young wife Helen helped her husband selflessly and to the point of exhaustion."
(Read more here)

Barbara Hershey won the Palme d'Or at Cannes
for her role as Schweitzer's wife

Cast: Jeroen Krabbé, Barbara Hershey, Samuel West, Jonathan Firth, Judith Godreche, Jeanette Hain, Armin Rohde.

Not sure if we'll be able to see this eventually with English subtitles?