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The Narrow Road to the Deep North

The Narrow Road to the Deep North

2025 - 2025

Episode 1

18th April 2025
Episode 1
While writing a speech for an upcoming book launch, renowned surgeon and celebrated war hero, Dorrigo Evans is thrust back into memories of his time as a POW in WW2 and of his brief, yet unforgettable, love affair with Amy Mulvaney. A love which sustained him through this dark time.

Episode 2

18th April 2025
Episode 2
We witness the burgeoning love affair between Dorrigo and Amy in the 1940s, which is in stark contrast to his present day marriage to his wife, Ella. The banality of his current life in the 1980s leads Dorrigo to take a risk that puts his surgical career in jeopardy.

Episode 3

18th April 2025
Episode 3
Dorrigo has come under investigation for a risky procedure he performed, placing a further strain on his marriage. A marriage that is already feeling the effects of Dorrigo's everlasting love for Amy, a love both cannot resist. We also witness Dorrigo's deep love and care towards the soldiers when a cholera outbreak spreads through the POW camp, and his friend Rabbit becomes increasingly unwell.

Episode 4

18th April 2025
Episode 4
Dorrigo and Amy's affair must end when Dorrigo is shipped off to war, where as a prisoner he bares witness to the most horrific of crimes.

Episode 5

18th April 2025
Episode 5
Dorrigo returns from war and tries to get on with his life without Amy and many of his friends he lost to the POW camp. While in the present, the day of the book launch arrives and Dorrigo's reflections on his life come to a head.
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The story of Dorrigo Evans, an army surgeon whose short but forbidden affair with his uncle's wife sustains and haunts him through his darkest days in a Thai-Burmese prisoner of war camp in WWII.

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Full Cast
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Jacob Elordi

Dorrigo Evans

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Ciarán Hinds

Dorrigo Evans 1980s

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Odessa Young

Amy Mulvaney

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Olivia DeJonge

Ella Evans

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Heather Mitchell

Ella Evans 1980s

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Major Nakamura

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Simon Baker

Keith Mulvaney

Full Crew
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Richard Flanagan

Executive Producer

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Richard Flanagan

Novel

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Jo Porter

Executive Producer

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Justin Kurzel

Executive Producer

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Rachel Gardner

Executive Producer

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Shaun Grant

Executive Producer

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Alexandra Taussig

Producer

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Jed Kurzel

Original Music Composer

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Sam Chiplin

Director of Photography

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Alexandre de Franceschi

Editor

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Nikki Barrett

Casting

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Alice Babidge

Costume Design

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Lauren Wild

Art Direction

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Anthea Hodge

Art Direction

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Rachael Alford

Script Coordinator

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Karen-Marie Farnsworth

Script Supervisor

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Sam Squillacioti

Script Coordinator

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Alice Baueris

Special Effects Makeup Artist

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Jac Charlton

Special Effects Makeup Artist

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Angela Conte

Makeup Artist

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Helen Tuck

Prosthetic Makeup Artist

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Rachel Murphy

Makeup Artist

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Alice Babidge

Production Design

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Beverley Dunn

Set Decoration

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Andy Wright

Sound

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Steve Burgess

Sound

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Harry Dakanalis

Stunt Coordinator

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Masa Yamaguchi

Fight Choreographer

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