Canada's darkest military hour, served cold with bureaucratic arrogance.
A dramatization of the failed World War II raid which became the most serious defeat of Canadian forces in the war.
Acting
Victor Garber's Mountbatten: charm masking catastrophic overconfidence.
Writing
Dialogue that makes bureaucracy feel like slow-motion tragedy.
Director
John N. Smith
Gary Reineke
Maj. Gen. Hamilton Roberts
Victor Garber
Lord Louis Mountbatten
Robert Joy
Hughes-Hallett
Peter Donat
McNaughton
Aidan Devine
Casey
Gordon Currie
Stefan
Thomas Mitchell
Jawarski
Brian Taylor
Morton
Greg Ellwand
Magnus
John Nelles
Lionel
Larissa Laskin
Leith
Gabrielle Rose
Anne
John Neville
Gen. Sir Alan Brooke
Kenneth Welsh
Maj. Gen. Harry Crerar
Michael Anderson Jr.
David Lean
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The film uses actual German propaganda footage of the raid's aftermath, which the Allies initially suppressed. Smith obtained it through Canadian archives.
Dieppe became Canada's national trauma—this TV movie helped 1990s audiences question the 'noble sacrifice' narrative their grandparents swallowed.
US
CA
