SILK: SERIES 1

Details

• Release Year: 2011
• Genre: Drama
• Plot: A married silkworm smuggler, Herve Joncour, in 19th Century France who travels to Japan to collect his clandestine cargo. While there he spots a beautiful Japanese woman, the concubine of a local baron, with whom he becomes obsessed. Without speaking the same language, they communicate through letters until war intervenes. Their unrequited love persists however, and Herve's wife Helene begins to suspect.
• Cast: Maxine Peake; Rupert Penry-Jones; Neil Stuke; John MacMillan; Theo Barklem-Biggs; Alex Jennings; Amy Wren; Frances Barber; Philip Davis; Tom Hughes; Natalie Dormer; Nina Sosanya; Jamie Dispirito; Indira Varma; Miranda Raison; Jessica Henwick; Kirsty Bushell; Paul Hilton; Shanaya Rafaat; Pip Torrens; Reece Noi; Shaun Evans; Adrian Schiller; Will Keen; Malcolm Sinclair; Elizabeth Bennett; Kieran O'Brien; Finbar Lynch; Owen Teale; Christopher James; Nicholas Jones; Kaye Wragg; Glen Stanway; Stephen Leddington; Alan Bond; Alexander Bracq; Daniel Fearn; Nigel Genis; Anna Nightingale; Vincent Regan; Robin Soans; Fenella Woolgar; Stephanie Street; William Chubb; Aden Gillett; John Light; Dorian Lough; Paul Ready; Paul Kynman; Morgan Watkins; Gerard Horan; Syreeta Kumar; Jonathan McGuinness; James Northcote; John Salthouse; Adrian Dunbar; Mark Flitton; Ryan Hayward; Jack James; Iain Mitchell; Peter Wight; Peter De Jersey; James Musgrave; Prasanna Puwanarajah; Philip Bretherton; Lauren Crace; Alison Newman; Christianne Oliveira; Ron Donachie; Jack Farthing; Shazad Latif; Ariyon Bakare; Greg Donaldson; Simon Shackleton; Shannon Tarbet; Tony Turner; Calum Callaghan; Andrew Scarborough; Frog Stone; Kemal Sylvester; Jimmy Akingbola; Penny Downie; Nick Hendrix; Clara Salaman; Nick Sampson; Mark Tandy; Sandra Duncan; Ray Fearon; Elliott Jordan; Nasser Memarzia; Claire Porter; Helena Cullinan; Jane Lucas; Jason Maza; Brodie Ross; Aaron Shosanya; Myriam Acharki; David Bark-Jones; John Hodgkinson; Seun Shote; Nicholas Woodeson; Elaine Claxton; Buffy Davis; Lorna Gayle; Christopher Gilling; Diana Quick; Rupert Wickham; Phil Deguara; Tamla Kari; Michael Müller; David Phelan; Natasha Williams; Sam graham; Penelope McGhie; Sheila Ruskin; Susan Tracy; Peter Vaughan; Flip Webster; Sadie Shimmin; Rhashan Stone; Lloyd Hutchinson; Chris Middleton; Paul Thornley; Philip Brook; Simon Chandler; Richard Durden; Gerard Monaco; Jacqui Boatswain; Peter Hamilton Dyer; Matt Warman; Nick Fletcher; Jonathan Jaynes; Jamie Newall; Simon Wilson; Thomas Wheatley; Jonathan Aris; Simon Merrells; Ben Lamb; Munir Khairdin; Kate Lamb; Ed Birch; Mark Penfold; Ryan Winsley; Judy Norman; Reece Beaumont; Sian Brooke; Jamie Clark; Steve Conway; Sam Creed; Kerry Godliman; Laura Greenwood; Mark Leadbetter; James Lowe; Robert Harrison O'Neil; Tom Beard; Greg Bennett; Alex Corbet Burcher; Kobna Holdbrook-Smith; Mark Lewis Jones; Alan Lambie; Ian Mann; Joshua Mayes-Cooper; Tim McMullan; Matthew McNulty; Nasir Mohamed; Jamie Parker; Sonia Ritter; Andrew Woodall; Susannah Allman; Alexander Arnold; Danny Ashok; Lee Asquith-Coe; Lisa Baird; Georgina Beedle; Terence Beasley; Sophie Bevan; Ace Bhatti; Daniel Boyd; David Bradley; Brian Capron; Gioacchino Jim Cuffaro; Marcus Cunningham; Suzanne Davies; Timothy Davies; Edwin De La Renta; Jacqueline Defferary; Benjamin Dilloway; Otto Farrant; Emma Fielding; Michael Gold; Stella Gonet; Harry Hadden-Paton; Pervez Hakim; Kane Headley-Cummings; Tara Hodge; Oscar Kennedy; Jacqueline King; Stewart Lockwood; Adrian Lukis; Rocky Marshall; Nathaniel Martello-White; Eleanor Matsuura; Stuart Matthews; David McAlister; Carl McCrystal; Alan Mckenna; Simon Meacock; Emerald O'Hanrahan; Ade Oyefeso; Sagar Radia; Alana Ramsey; Joe Renton; David Rintoul; Ukweli Roach; Nicholas Rowe; Nicola Sangster; Ian Seale; Jay Simpson; Claire Skinner; Daniel Smales; Kris Sommerville; Danny Stokes; Meera Syal; Jay Taylor; William Troughton; Julian Wadham; Gareth Williams; Philip York; Hannah Blamires; Marc Jobst; Catherine Morshead; Peter Hoar; Alice Troughton; Jeremy Webb; Mick Collins; Peter Moffat; Debbie O'Malley; Christian Spurrier; Colin Teevan; Steve Thompson
• Director: Marc Jobst
• Runtime: 5:51
• Media Format: Series