Movie Details
Original Language:French
Executive Producers:René Chénier
Production Companies:ONF NFB
The Trenches on the Web:Official Website
The Trenches
Audience Score
Plot
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 Cloutiers hypnotizing brushstroke the film is a dazzling illustration of the futility of war
