Cast

Brian Stirner Davyd Harries Nicholas Ball Julie Neesam Sam Sewell John Franklyn-Robbins

Credits

Written by: Christopher Hudson

Plot

A young British conscript, Tom, trains for the D-Day invasion, with a premonition of his death, in a film that mixes fiction with real archive footage from the Imperial War Museum.

Sinekatalog’s take

A poetic and haunting war film in black and white.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.

Ratings

IMDb: 7.1 / 10 (3,809 votes)
IMDb rating and vote count from the IMDb ratings dataset (October 2026). Scores change over time.

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