The Somme

1h 42m
DramaDocumentary
5.8

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.

Cast

Tilda Swinton
Narrator (voice)
Ed Stoppard
Captain Charlie May
Paul Popplewell
Greenhalgh
Patrick Kennedy
Sergeant Richard H. Tawney
Martin Hancock
Andrews
Raymond Waring
Lance-Corporal Sidney McCoy
Robert Cambrinus
Franz Cassel
William Beck
Bundy

Crew

Carl Hindmarch
Director, Writer
Mark Hayhurst
Writer
Maciej Skalski
Producer
Michał Szczerbic
Producer
Weronika Migoń
Casting
Piotr Pacuła-Sergiel
Sound

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