Lt. Siegfried Sassoon, a poet and war veteran, is facing court-martial for publicly decrying British conduct in World War I. His poet friend Robert Graves pulls strings to get Sassoon placed in a psychiatric war hospital in Scotland, where soldiers are to be swiftly rehabilitated and sent back into battle. There, Sassoon meets a sympathetic doctor and also Wilfred Owen, whom he encourages to pursue poetry as a form of wartime therapy. An emotionally electrifying story of war’s devastating impact on a group of World War I soldiers. , this is also known as “Behind the Lines.”
A “stirring and articulate exploration of warfare.” – The New York Times
Starring Jonathan Pryce, James Wilby, Jonny Lee Miller.
Rated R