The Trenches
|La Tranchée
Status: Released
Runtime: 6
Release Date: 02/06/2010
Origin Language: fr
Origin Country: CA - FR
Languages: FrenchEnglish
Production: ONF | NFB
Countries: Canada
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0 (0)
Animation
War
Drama
This animated short by Claude Cloutier is a pictorial account of an attack on Canadian soldiers during WWI. On the edge of the battlefield, recruits are dreading the order to attack. At the signal, a young soldier leaps into a hell of fire and blood where the earth engulfs both the living and the dead. Blending archival images and Cloutier’s hypnotizing brushstroke, the film is a dazzling illustration of the futility of war.
