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WHAT’S
IT ABOUT THEN?
This
film is set in the trenches of
the bloodiest war of all time
World War 1, The opening scenes
recreate the horrors of war. The
endless stream of machine
bullets, the bombs and shells
that kill and maim, the poison
gas that rips the lungs out of
men, thrust into this nightmare
men are pushed to the brink of
insanity.
The
story concerns a squad of
British Soldiers caught up in
this conflict. In appalling
conditions the squad are
charging the enemy lines 9
soldiers become separated from
the rest of the squad, these 9
come across a German foxhole
with three German soldiers still
there. Two of the Germans are
killed instantly ( yes there is
brutality here also) the third
is held for questioning.
The
thing that is apparent is that
there are an abnormally large
number of German soldiers (30 or
more) bodies are lying in the
mud of the trench with no
apparent marks on them.
Questions begin to form in the
minds of the British soldiers:
why didn’t the three remaining
soldiers fall back? Why didn’t
the German command reinforce the
trench with fresh troops? And
what happened to the dead German
soldiers.Thus the first seeds of
unease are sown in their minds
also.
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