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The Trench (DVD, 2000)

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Product Information

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

EAN5017239190711

eBay Product ID (ePID)3945246

Product Key Features

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

Film/TV TitleThe Trench

DirectorWilliam Boyd

LanguageEnglish

Run Time112 Mins

Aspect Ratio16:9 Anamorphic Wide Screen

Release Year2000

FormatDVD

FeaturesWidescreen, Featurette\Interviews\Behind the Scenes

GenreDrama, General

Additional Product Features

Number of Discs1

Certificate15

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.

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

ScreenwriterWilliam Boyd

MusicEvelyn Glennie, Greg Malcangi

Sound sourceDolby Pro Logic

EditorLaurence Mery-Clark, Jim Clark

Movie/TV TitleThe Trench

Director of PhotographyTony Pierce-Roberts