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Chronicles the lives of three generations of the upper-middle-class British family, the Forsytes, from the 1870s to 1920.
6 October 1973, Cardiff, Wales, UK
6 September 1935, England, UK
30 September 1970, Catterick, North Yorkshire, England, UK
9 January 1952, Penang, Malaysia
1981, Maidstone, Kent, England, UK
1953, England, UK
14 April 1964, Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, England, UK
1951, Manchester, Lancashire, England, UK
1963, Essex, England, UK
5 June 1963, Staffordshire, England, UK
5 September 1964, Kalmar, Kalmar län, Sweden
1980
25 February 1973, Dorset, England, UK
1921 in Reading, Berkshire, England, UK
1936, Chorley, Lancashire, England, UK
April 22, 2019
Lewis's performance, though, is a constant marvel. The actor makes Soames's emotional repression so palpable that it's hard to hate him even at his most heartless.
April 22, 2019
It's a testament to the material's strength, and its handling here, that "The Forsyte Saga" still manages to succeed.
April 22, 2019
It would be easy to dismiss The Forsyte Saga as "just" a soap opera with the emphasis on plot, but you could argue the same of The Way We Live Now. An epic story, it managed to look epic too. The Forsyte Saga, alas, did not.
April 22, 2019
Although the new ''Forsyte Saga'' cannot recreate the story's historic role in television, its revitalized characters offer a delightful escape.
April 22, 2019
There are also moments of high drama, though that concept is miles from what we've come to expect in our popcorn-movie culture. Still, it works.
April 22, 2019
It is testimony to Lewis' extraordinary skill that his is the character we loathe at the outset of "The Forsyte Saga" and in whom we become most interested by the end.
April 22, 2019
It's a tribute to the story, writing and Lewis' performance that Soames is more multidimensional than he so easily could have been
