The Trench

1999, Movie, NR, 99 mins

The Trench: Review

Without staging massive battle scenes or filling his characters' mouths with fiery rhetoric, novelist and first-time director William Boyd has made a powerful anti-war film. Using a strategy similar to that of DAS BOOT, Boyd distills the horror of war into the plight of a small group of terrified men confined to a tight, claustrophobic space: the narrow, winding trenches of Northern France. The date is June 29, 1916; the place, the Western Front. On the eve of the Battle of ... read more leave a comment

The Trench: Cast & Details

Year: 1999
Rated NR

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Cast
Paul Nicholls: Billy Macfarlane
Daniel Craig: Sgt. Telford Winter
Julian Rhind-Tutt: Ellis Harte
Danny Dyer: Victor Dell
James D'Arcy: Colin Daventry
Tam Williams: Eddie Macfarlane

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