The Trenches

The Trenches

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20100h 6minAnimation MoviesFrançais, English
6.6

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 Cloutier’s hypnotizing brushstroke, the film is a dazzling illustration of the futility of war.

WriterN/A
DirectorClaude Cloutier
ActorGabriel Boileau-Cloutier, Marc-André Bélanger, David Laurin
CountryCanada
ProductionONF | NFB