Sharpe's Challenge

Sharpe's Challenge
British DVD cover
Based on	The Sharpe stories by Bernard Cornwell
Screenplay by	Russell Lewis
Directed by	Tom Clegg
Starring	Sean Bean Daragh O'Malley Toby Stephens Padma Lakshmi Aurélien Recoing Lucy Brown
Theme music composer	Dominic Muldowney John Tams
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language	English
Production
Producers	Malcolm Craddock Muir Sutherland
Running time	135 minutes[1]
Production companies	Celtic Films Entertainment Picture Palace Films BBC America
Original release
Network	ITV
Release	23 April 2006 (2006-04-23)
Related
Sharpe's Waterloo Sharpe's Peril
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Sharpe's Challenge is a British TV film from 2006, usually shown in two parts, which is part of an ITV series based on Bernard Cornwell's historical fiction novels about the British soldier Richard Sharpe during the Napoleonic Wars. Contrary to most parts of the TV series, Sharpe's Challenge, as well as the follow-up Sharpe's Peril, is not based entirely on one of Cornwell's novels, but it uses and adapts some characters and storylines from Sharpe's Tiger (1997). Both are set in 1817, two years after Sharpe has retired as a farmer in Normandy, so chronologically they come after Sharpe's Assassin (1815) and before the final novel Sharpe's Devil (1820–21). Some of the events in the film are inspired by events in the first three novels of the series. In Sharpe's Challenge and Sharpe's Peril, Sharpe and his comrade in arms, Patrick Harper, have been temporarily called out of retirement and asked to go to India.