The Somme (2020)

  • 15
  • 12/28/2020 (GB)
  • Drama, Documentary
  • 1h 42m

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.

Carl Hindmarch

Director, Writer

Mark Hayhurst

Writer

Cast

Tilda Swinton's headshot

Tilda Swinton

Narrator (voice)
Ed Stoppard's headshot

Ed Stoppard

Captain Charlie May
Paul Popplewell's headshot

Paul Popplewell

Greenhalgh
Patrick Kennedy's headshot

Patrick Kennedy

Sergeant Richard H. Tawney
Martin Hancock's headshot

Martin Hancock

Andrews
Raymond Waring's headshot

Raymond Waring

Lance-Corporal Sidney McCoy
Robert Cambrinus's headshot

Robert Cambrinus

Franz Cassel
William Beck's headshot

William Beck

Bundy

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