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Florence Nightingale (1985)

Florence Nightingale (1985)

Drama TV Movie

The fact-based story of the pioneer of nursing known as 'the Lady with the Lamp'.

Release Date: 1985, April 7
Directors: Daryl Duke
Countries: United Kingdom
Production: Cypress Point Productions, Cypress Point Productions
Cast: Paul Williamson, Wolf Kahler, Brian Cox, Timothy Dalton, Stephan Chase, Peter Burton, Denis Lill, Richenda Carey, Claire Bloom, Lesley Dunlop, Fanny Carby, Richard Leech

Overview:

This is the fact-based story of an aristocratic woman who defies Victorian society to reform hospital sanitation and to define the nursing profession as it is known today. After volunteering to travel to Scutari to care for the wounded soldiers, who are victims of the Crimean war, she finds herself very unwelcome and faces great opposition for her new way of thinking. However through her selfless acts of caring, she quickly becomes known as 'The Lady with the Lamp', the caring nurse whose shadow soldiers kiss.

Keywords:

biography florence nightingale crimean war (1853-56)