The Somme (2005)

11/14/2005 (GB) • 1h 42m

Drama, Documentary

Overview

Drama-documentary recounting the events of the 1st July 1916 and the Battle of the Somme on the Western Front during the First World War. Told through the letters and journals of soldiers who were there.

Top Billed Cast

Tilda Swinton

Narrator (voice)

Ed Stoppard

Captain Charlie May

Paul Popplewell

Greenhalgh

Patrick Kennedy

Sergeant Richard H. Tawney

Raymond Waring

Lance-Corporal Sidney McCoy

Robert Cambrinus

Franz Cassel


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Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

-

Revenue

-

Keywords

world war i

infantry

british soldier

casualty of war

trench warfare

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