Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 98 min
- Age rating
- 15
- Language
- English
- Country
- France, United Kingdom
- Violence
- Moderate
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
The story
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.
- friendship
- world war i
- bravery
- trauma
- based on true story
- battlefield
- 1910s
- trench warfare
- battle of the somme
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
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
- Anthony Strachan — Pte. Horace Beckwith
- Michael Moreland — Pte. George Hogg
- John Higgins — Pte. Cornwallis
- Danny Nutt — Pte. Dieter Zimmermann
- Tim Murphy — Pte. Bone
- Directed
- William Boyd
- Written
- William Boyd
Production
- Rating
- 5.3 / 10 · 109 ratings
- Studio
- Portman Entertainment Group, British Screen, The Arts Council, Bonaparte Films Ltd, Skyline Films, Galatée Films
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
