A shell shocked veteran Michael Dunne returns home to Canada where he is assigned to help the on-going recruitment drive needed to feed the war machine. As he recovers from his experiences he falls for Sarah a war nurse whose younger brother cannot enlist due to a medical condition. Desperate to serve his country David uses a fraudulent medical certificate and joins the army. Michael feels he has no option but to follow him back to the Western Front and protect him from harm. Both men are dispatched to the front line of Passchendaele a battle that became synonymous with the misery of the First World War and claimed over 600,000 casualties.

Product details

Director	Paul Gross
Actor	Paul Gross, Caroline Dhavernas, Michael Greyeyes, Jesse Frechette, Rainer Kahl, James Kot, Landon Liboiron, Patricia Benedict, Hugh Probyn

Genre	War
Content	DVD
FSK / age rating	from age 0
Publication date	07.12.2010
Region code	1
Version	US Version
Original title	Passchendaele
Year of production	2008
Audio	English

Cast & Crew

Actor

Production & Studios

Paul Gross

Genre

Customer reviews

Ziel verfehlt

Written on 15. January 2012 by Tommy.
This customer review refers to a alternative version.

Schade, da dachte man, dass die Kanadier endlich einmal einen guten Kriegsfilm machen (wenn es schon um ihre eigene Geschichte geht), aber Fehlanzeige. Vor lauter political correctness wird der Film überladen mit moralisch-pathetischen Botschaften und wirkt dadurch schwülstig und langsam. Eine gute Chance wurde hier vertan.