World War I · Film · 2017
Journey's End
A fresh young officer asks to join the company of his school hero, only to find him drinking to hold himself together as the whole dugout waits for a German offensive everyone knows is coming.
Where it happened
Follow the story across 1 places.
Stop 1: British trenches before Saint-Quentin
Key location
Raleigh settles into C Company's dugout, where Captain Stanhope orders a daylight raid to capture a German prisoner days before the expected attack.
What really happened
The film adapts R. C. Sherriff's 1928 play, written from his own service as an officer with the East Surrey Regiment, who was wounded at Passchendaele in 1917. The story unfolds in a British dugout facing the German line near Saint-Quentin in the days before 21 March 1918.
That morning Germany launched Operation Michael, the opening blow of its spring offensive. After a bombardment of more than a million shells in about five hours, German storm troops overran the British Fifth Army's forward positions in fog; the British suffered around 38,000 casualties on the first day, some 21,000 of them taken prisoner.
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Full details
- Original title
- Journey's End
- Directed by
- Saul Dibb
- Countries
- United Kingdom
- Languages
- English
- Released
- 2017
- Period
- –
- Theaters of war
- Western Europe
- Themes
- Combat
