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.
Acting
Jonathan Pryce's exhausted empathy as Rivers
Writing
Pat Barker adaptation that respects silence
Director
Gillies MacKinnon
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
Eileen Nicholas
Miss Crowe
Julian Fellowes
Timmons
David Robb
Dr. McIntyre
Kevin McKidd
Callan
Rupert Procter
Capt. David Burns
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Wilfred Owen was killed exactly one week before Armistice, making his scenes here almost unbearably weighted.
The real Craiglockhart Hospital treated shell shock with controversial methods; Rivers' 'talking cure' was genuinely progressive for 1917.
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