Fifteen minutes. Three strangers. One bullet could end everything—including the war inside them.
August 1914. Europe has mobilised. The Imperial German Army has executed its Schlieffen Plan, has ploughed through Belgium, and is now deep in France. The British Expeditionary Force is seeing its first action against the Germans. Skirmishes in open countryside are common, and both sides are still learning how a modern war could and should be fought. Two soldiers, one English, one German, both with lives and lovers at home they would rather not have left, find themselves facing each other, alone. Alone, except for the French girl, Françoise…
Cinematography
Intimate close-ups that make 15 minutes feel infinite.
Acting
Three performers carrying the weight of nations.
Director
Toby Fountaine
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Shot on location in France using authentic WWI reenactment equipment; the rifles fired blanks that echoed across actual battlefields from the era.
The Christmas Truce of 1914 happened mere months after this film's setting—making the characters' hesitation almost prophetic of the real fraternizations that briefly stopped the war.
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