New Trailer for 'Testament of Youth' starring Alicia Vikander and Kit Harington

Not every female hero in the movies has super powers; some get by on personal strength and unbreakable will. Vera Brittain was one such woman, whose story is being told in James Kent's WWI drama Testament of Youth, starring Alicia Vikander as the real life heroine whose memoir inspired this story.

Co-starring Kit Harington,  Taron Egerton, Dominic West, Emily Watson, Hayley Atwell, Jonathan Bailey, Alexandra Roach, Anna Chancellor and more, the latest trailer introduces us to Brittain, a well-known pacifist who hope to buck preconceived notions for women by attending Oxford University, only to have everything she planned disrupted by the war. As battle edges closer, she makes the decision to join the war effort as a frontline nurse, an experience that would change her perceptions forever.

Directed by James Kent, this looks like another handsomely done, impeccably acted period piece, but those are in great supply throughout the year. Testament of Youth has yet to receive a stateside date but will arrive in the U.K. on January 16th.

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Trailer for War-Torn Drama 'Testament of Youth' Starring Alicia Vikander and Kit Harington

With 2014 marking the 100th anniversary of the start of WWI, you'd think more films centered on the Great War would be making the rounds, but that hasn't proven to be the case. One film that hopes to shine a spotlight on a forgotten hero of the war is Testament of Youth, which features a deep roster of top British talent, and now it also has a very impressive first trailer.

Filming only began a few days ago so having footage this soon is pretty remarkable. The film stars Alicia Vikander as renowned author and pacifist, Vera Brittain, and is based on her best-selling 1933 memoir. Brittain was an Oxford student who took time away from her studies to serve as a nurse on the frontlines after nearly everyone she loved was killed in the fighting. That was just the beginning of her story, and director James Kent hopes to tell it as a sweeping war-torn romance, with Game of Thrones' Kit Harington as Brittain's fiance. 

Also starring Hayley Atwell, Emily Watson, Taron Egerton, Dominic West, Alexandra Roach, and Anna Chancellor, Testament of Youth opens in the U.K. on January 2nd. No word on a U.S. date.

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