In Love and War is a Hallmark Hall of Fame TV movie, directed by John Kent Harrison. It is based on the 1971 book Love and War in the Apennines by Eric Newby. It was filmed in Italy and stars Callum Blue and Barbora Bobuľová. The presentation aired on CBS on November 18, 2001.

Plot

Eric Newby is an English soldier in 1943, captured by the Germans and imprisoned in a former mansion in Italy. The mansion is beautiful, Prisoners are well fed and receive Red Cross packages regularly. While Wanda and her Italian girl friends bicycle past the mansion, Eric spots her, and she returns his glances. In one of the packages, Eric claims an Italian language book. Wanda finds her way into the prisoner section as an Italian language mentor. Of course, Erik becomes her student. Sometime later, Eric and others escape, and Wanda finds him. She leads him north, thinking he will escape to Switzerland. They find their way to an Italian farm. Eric is taken in by the family, made to look like an Italian (vs. Englishman), and remains on the farm as a farm worker.