The story of Dorrigo Evans, an army surgeon whose short but forbidden affair with his uncle's wife sustains and haunts him through his darkest days in a Thai-Burmese prisoner of war camp in WWII.
Creator
Creator
Dorrigo Evans
Dorrigo Evans 1980s
Amy Mulvaney
Ella Evans
Ella Evans 1980s
Major Nakamura
Keith Mulvaney
Amazon Prime’s "The Narrow Road to the Deep North" is not a war drama in the conventional sense. It is a quiet, unflinching study of memory, guilt, and the impossibility of reconciling the past with the present. Adapted from Richard Flanagan’s Booker Prize-winning novel and brought to the screen with striking restraint by director Justin Kurzel (whose in the best form of his career), this five-part Australian miniseries is as devastating as it is beautiful. The story unfolds across three timelines, each a fragment of the fractured soul of Dorrigo Evans. As a young army surgeon (played with ...
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Status Ended
Network
TypeMiniseries
Original LanguageEnglish