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A Russian and a German sniper play a game of cat-and-mouse during the Battle of Stalingrad in WWII.


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.

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
The Trench is a war, history film released in 1999 exploring themes of friendship, world war i, bravery, trauma, based on true story, battlefield. Directed by William Boyd, it stars Daniel Craig, Danny Dyer, James D'Arcy. 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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