The Trench
Released: September 17, 1999Runtime: 98 min
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.
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Paul Nicholls
as Pte. Billy Macfarlane
Daniel Craig
as Sgt. Telford Winter
Julian Rhind Tutt
as 2nd Lt. Ellis Harte
Danny Dyer
as Lance Cpl. Victor Dell
James D Arcy
as Pte. Colin Daventry
Tam Williams
as Pte. Eddie Macfarlane
Antony Strachan
as Pte. Horace Beckwith
Michael Moreland
as Pte. George Hogg
Adrian Lukis
as Lt. Col. Villiers
Ciaran Mcmenamin
as Pte. Charlie Ambrose
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