The Somme

November. 14,2005      
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7.3
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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.

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

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Reviews

Baseshment
2005/11/14

I like movies that are aware of what they are selling... without [any] greater aspirations than to make people laugh and that's it.

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Connianatu
2005/11/15

How wonderful it is to see this fine actress carry a film and carry it so beautifully.

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Seraherrera
2005/11/16

The movie is wonderful and true, an act of love in all its contradictions and complexity

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Rexanne
2005/11/17

It’s sentimental, ridiculously long and only occasionally funny

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