The only lesson to extract from any civil war is that it's pointless and futile and ugly, and that there is nothing glamorous or heroic about it. There are heroes, but the causes are never heroic.

The Met's production has been transmitted live into movie theaters worldwide on March 7 2008 part of the Met's HD series and is now available on DVD. It is completely false. John's Portsmouth.

Anthony Minghella CBE (6 January 1954 – 18 March 2008) was a British film director playwright and screenwriter. He was Chairman of the Board of Governors at the British Film Institute between 2003 and 2007.