
A Farewell to Arms(1957)
An English nurse and an American soldier on the Italian front during World War I fall in love, but the horrors surrounding them test their romance to the limit.


“Between duty and destiny, loyalty and love, lies the road to...”
Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon, two of England's most important World War I poets are sent, along with other traumatized combatants, to a rest home in order to treat their emotional troubles, caused by the psychological fatigue that suffer the soldiers fighting in the no man's land.

Jonathan Pryce
Capt. William Rivers

James Wilby
2nd Lt. Siegfried Sassoon

Jonny Lee Miller
2nd Lt. Billy Prior

Stuart Bunce
2nd Lt. Wilfred Owen

Tanya Allen
Sarah Lumb

Dougray Scott
Capt. Robert Graves

David Hayman
Maj. Bryce

John Neville
Dr. Yealland

Paul Young
Dr. Brock

Alastair Galbraith
Capt. Campbell
Regeneration is a drama, war film released in 1997 exploring themes of based on novel or book, world war i, edinburgh, scotland, hospital, psychiatrist, 1910s. Directed by Gillies MacKinnon, it stars Jonathan Pryce, James Wilby, Jonny Lee Miller. Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sassoon, two of England's most important World War I poets are sent, along with other traumatized combatants, to a rest home in order to treat their emotional troubles, caused by the psychological fatigue that suffer the soldiers fighting in the no man's land.
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