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The Trench (Blu-ray, 2020)

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This drama is set in the 48 hours during the lead up to the Battle of the Somme. The story is seen through the eyes of 17 year old Bill MacFarlane as he faces up to his responsibilites.

Product Identifiers

ProducerSteve Clark Hall

EAN5060352308341

eBay Product ID (ePID)21048562422

Product Key Features

Film/TV TitleThe Trench

ActorJulian Rhind-Tutt, Paul Nicholls, James D'arcy, Tam Williams, Danny Dyer, Daniel Craig

DirectorWilliam Boyd

FormatBlu-ray

LanguageEnglish

Release Year2020

GenreDrama, General

Run Time97 Mins

Additional Product Features

Certificate15

Number of Discs1

Director of PhotographyTony Pierce-Roberts

ReviewsNew York Times - ...[A] stirring World War I drama...

Additional InformationTHE 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 Saergeant 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.<BR>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.

Movie/TV TitleThe Trench

Sound sourceDolby Digital

ScreenwriterWilliam Boyd

MusicEvelyn Glennie, Greg Malcangi

EditorLaurence Mery-Clark, Jim Clark