Genre: War, Drama, World War I
Tagline: It is a place 8ft wide, 600 miles long, man-made and God-forsaken.
Plot: THE TRENCH tells the story of a group of young British soldiers on the eve of the Battle of the Somme in the summer of 1916, the worst defeat in British military history. Against this ill-fated backdrop, the movie depicts the soldiers' experience as a mixture of boredom, fear, panic, and restlessness, confined to a trench on the front lines. At the center of the troops is 17-year-old Billy MacFarlane (Paul Nicholls), who alongside his older brother, Eddie (Tam Williams), has volunteered for service. Like their fellow squad members, they are boys dressed as men. Their survival is in the hands of war-hardened Sergeant Winter (Daniel Craig) and bookish Lieutenant Hart (Julian Rhind-Tutt). However, when word comes that the squad will join the first wave of the attack, they all face an equal fate.Novelist and screenwriter William Boyd's directorial debut steers clear of epic pronouncements about the pointlessness of war. Instead, he illuminates in glowing detail the characters perched at the edge of the abyss. With a minimum of bloodshed, the movie seeks to capture a momentous event through a narrow lens. Watching the men march stiffly into battle, it becomes clear there is no such thing as "modern" warfare.
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William Boyd
A Good Man in Africa, Tune in Tomorrow..., Man to Man |
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William Boyd
A Good Man in Africa, Tune in Tomorrow..., Man to Man |
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| Cast |
Daniel Craig
Road to Perdition, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider, Munich |
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 | Paul Nicholls
If Only, Gunpowder, Treason & Plot, Goodbye Charlie Bright | | Danny Dyer
Mean Machine, Human Traffic, The Football Factory | James D'Arcy
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, Exorcist: The Beginning, An American Haunting | | |
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