Alliance Française & Goethe Institut Glasgow The Trench

The Trench / William Boyd / 1999

From boredom to fear, from panic to restlessness. The Trench gives a deep and emotional insight into the soldier’s minds during the last 48 hours before the Battle of the Somme in 1916. They do not yet know they will be present when the British Army loses the greatest number of soldiers in a single day in its history.

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To mark the 100th Anniversary of the end of World War One, and to coincide with the exhibition Brushes with War at the Kelvingrove Museum, the Alliance Française and the Goethe-Institut Glasgow will be screening French, German and British films throughout November: