The Trench poster
Director William Boyd
Writer William Boyd

The Trench

Release Date: 1999-09-17

Duration: 98 minutes

Synopsis

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.

Casting

  • Cillian Murphy
    Rag Rookwood
  • Daniel Craig
    Sgt. Telford Winter
  • Ben Whishaw
    Pte. James Deamis
  • James D'Arcy
    Pte. Colin Daventry
  • Danny Dyer
    Lance Cpl. Victor Dell
  • Julian Rhind-Tutt
    2nd Lt. Ellis Harte
  • Adrian Lukis
    Lt. Col. Villiers
  • Michael Moreland
    Pte. George Hogg
  • Anthony Strachan
    Pte. Horace Beckwith
  • Ciarán McMenamin
    Pte. Charlie Ambrose