The Trench

• 5.459 War
• 1999-09-17
• 98 minutes mins

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.

Starring:

Daniel Craig (Sgt. Telford Winter) Danny Dyer (Lance Cpl. Victor Dell) James D'Arcy (Pte. Colin Daventry) Paul Nicholls (Pte. Billy Macfarlane) Julian Rhind-Tutt (2nd Lt. Ellis Harte) Ciarán McMenamin (Pte. Charlie Ambrose) Cillian Murphy (Rag Rookwood) Ben Whishaw (Pte. James Deamis) Adrian Lukis (Lt. Col. Villiers) Tam Williams (Pte. Eddie Macfarlane)

Director:

William Boyd

Writer:

William Boyd