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The Trench

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June 1916. The British Army is planning a big offensive in the Somme region in France. We follow a platoon of British soldiers as they sit in a forward trench, anxiously awaiting the order to go over the top.

Year

2020

Duration

1h 38m

IMDb

5.9

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Cast

William Boyd

Director

Paul Nicholls

Pte. Billy Macfarlane

Daniel Craig

Sgt. Telford Winter

Cast

William Boyd

Director

Paul Nicholls

Pte. Billy Macfarlane

Daniel Craig

Sgt. Telford Winter

Julian Rhind-Tutt

2nd Lt. Ellis Harte

Danny Dyer

Lance Cpl. Victor Dell

James D'Arcy

Pte. Colin Daventry

Tam Williams

Pte. Eddie Macfarlane

Antony Strachan

Pte. Horace Beckwith

MM

Michael Moreland

Pte. George Hogg

Adrian Lukis

Lt. Col. Villiers

Ciarán McMenamin

Pte. Charlie Ambrose

Cillian Murphy

Rag Rookwood

JH

John Higgins

Pte. Cornwallis

Ben Whishaw

Pte. James Deamis

Tim Murphy

Pte. Bone

DN

Danny Nutt

Pte. Dieter Zimmermann

CC

Charles Cartmell

Harold Faithfull

TM

Tom Mullion

Nelson

JP

Jenny Pickering

Maria Corrigan

William Boyd

Writer

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Comments

10 Comments

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TgciVfApr 23, 2024

99% of the movie they were just in the trench... you only hear sounds of bombs dropping no action at all. if you are looking for a war movie bro this isn't the one at all.

TgciVfApr 23, 2024

99% of this movie they were just in the trench.. you only hear sounds of bombs dropping... if you want to see a war movie bro this isn't the one at all

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Farah MabundaMay 23, 2023

I watched this film just now, and was very surprised not to hear one single Irish accent. All the accents I heard were English bar one Scot. And yet the Battle is known for the senseless sacrifice of such a great number of Irishmen - from the 36th (Ulster) Division and the 16th (Irish) Division. The Ulster Division, made from the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, Royal Ulster Rifles and Royal Irish Fusiliers, as I understand it, "suffered some five and a half thousand casualties - out of a total divisional complement of ten or eleven thousand men. (In writing of "casualties" it is a generally accepted assumption that one out of every three was killed or died of wounds later)." So, although I missed some of the film due to a rush to the hospital before it started, I was very surprised not to have heard any Irish accents from the point I started watching it. As a film it seemed average.

Monika wadhwaniaMay 23, 2023

I tend to agree with most comments about this film, which I only caught up with recently. The acting is decent, but the script, the set, the anachronistic swearing and the general lack of any feel for the time makes it difficult to watch without sighing heavily. I mainly decided to comment because I scrolled down to find a comment from someone in New York who says this was 'a conventional continuation of the British obsession with World War I as being the most symbolic war'. I wouldn't disagree with that, but she then mentions three films to back up this view: All Quiet on the Western Front (an American film based on a novel by a German, about the German army), Paths of Glory (a film made by an American about the French army) and Gallipoli (made by an Australian about the Australian experience in the Dardanelles). I do think we see this war as symbolic here in the UK, but I don't think we're the only ones.

kann chanMay 23, 2023

This movie is an unusual type of war movie. 99% of the movie is shot inside of this 8 foot wide, 600 mile long trench, filled with British soldiers just only becoming men. It has a sense of claustistiphobia, and itensity among young men that are practically scared to death about the world around them, and every little thing counts. This movie was very intense, and you couldn't take your eyes off it for a moment. 8.8 out of 10.

🇭🇺ina cali🇭🇺May 23, 2023

This was part of Channel 4's Lost Generation First World War season, and it was a huge mistake to show this so soon after their own very good drama-doc about the Somme. It was a mistake to show it at all. Novelist William Boyd is a terrible film director and screenwriter who has no real grip on his subject. Instead of taking a fresh look at the run up to the battle, he uses every old cliché you've seen before in the lips of every old stereotype you've seen before. Most of the cast are so bad I've forgotten their names. Only Daniel Craig and Julian Rhind Tutt come out with any credit. Very badly photographed too, with the trench clearly an interior and far too clean. Just terrible. Channel 4 should have shown something like ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT, which hasn't been on telly in years.

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