Wolf Hall (2015)

Drama

75^%

User
Score

8.2/10

Overview

England in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If the King dies without a male heir, the country could be destroyed by civil war. Henry VIII wants to annul his marriage of twenty years and marry Anne Boleyn. The Pope and most of Europe oppose him. Into this impasse steps Thomas Cromwell: a wholly original man, a charmer, and a bully, both idealist and opportunist, astute in reading people, and implacable in his ambition. But Henry is volatile: one day tender, one day murderous. Cromwell helps him break the opposition, but what will be the price of his triumph?

Peter Straughan

Creator

Hilary Mantel

Creator

Peter Kosminsky

Creator

Top Billed Cast

Mark Rylance

Thomas Cromwell

Damian Lewis

Henry VIII

Thomas Brodie-Sangster

Rafe Sadler

Joss Porter

Richard Cromwell

Claire Foy

Anne Boleyn

Kate Phillips

Jane Seymour

Richard Dillane

Duke of Suffolk

Will Keen

Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop Cranmer

Jonathan Pryce

Cardinal Wolsey

Hannah Steele

Mary Shelton

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf

Written on August 24, 2024

Based on Hilary Mantel's imaginative novels "Wolf Hall" and "Bring Up the Bodies" this six part drama tells the story of the machinations at the court of England's King Henry VIII (Damien Lewis) as he falls in lust then love with Anne Boleyn (Claire Foy). Her refusal to join the ranks of his mistresses means the king has to find a way to extricate himself from his twenty year marriage to Katherine...

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