Sunday-Night Play — Season 1, Episode 5: Twentieth Century Theatre: The White Guard
30 min • 4 seasons, 231 episodes
Episode synopsis
It is November 1918 and the scene is the city of Kiev in the Ukraine, lately garrisoned by the German Army of Occupation but now threatened by the approach of a large well-equipped army of Cossacks. There's no ammunition and food is desperately short in the city. But still attempts are made to raise an army of citizens to repel the invaders. Describing the impact of the collapse of the Tsarist Empire on a family of officers, this play centres on Alexei Turbin, Colonel of the White Guard, responsible for defending Kiev, and on his beautiful sister Helena, deserted by her husband and in love with a young lieutenant, Leonid Schervinsky.
About Sunday-Night Play
BBC anthology drama series that ran over four seasons and replaced the previous BBC Sunday Night Theatre series.
More episodes from Season 1
- E1A Walk in the Desert
- E2The Unplayed Part
- E3The Ruffians
- E4Twentieth Century Theatre: Man and Superman
- E6Twentieth Century Theatre: Our Betters
- E7Twentieth Century Theatre: MacAdam and Eve
- E8Brian Rix Presents: Is Your Honeymoon Really Necessary?
- E9Twentieth Century Theatre: The Conquering Hero
- E10Twentieth Century Theatre: Journey's End
- E11Twentieth Century Theatre: The Fanatics
- E12Twentieth Century Theatre: Young Woodley
- E13Twentieth Century Theatre: I Have Been Here Before