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Mood:
- EmotionalDisturbing
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Plot:
- SoldierMilitary LifeWartime LifeBattlesMilitaryMute or DeafFriendshipAnti War more...
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Genres:
- DramaWarPeriod
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Time/Period:
- World War 1
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Place:
- EuropeScotland
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Based on:
- Based on BookBiographyBased on True Story
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Attitudes:
- SeriousRealisticSlow
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Behind The Lines, 1997
English
UK, Canada
Profile of Behind The Lines
The mood of Behind The Lines is emotional and disturbing. The plot centers around wartime life, military life, and being mute or deaf. It is a drama and period movie. In approach, Behind The Lines is serious and realistic. The pacing is slow. The setting is Scotland. Behind The Lines happens during World War 1. It is drawn from a biography, originally a true story, and based on a book.
Summary of Behind The Lines
A psychiatrist (Pryce) in a military mental institution during World War One is responsible for treating shell-shocked soldiers and returning them to battle. He's tormented with the morality of this task upon hearing first hand graphic war stories from his patients. The situation brings him dangerously close to the edge of a mental breakdown. An emotional tale of wartime heroism and sacrifice based the true story and the novel REGENERATION by Pat Barker.
Details
| Language: | English |
| Country: | UK, Canada |
| Release date: | 14 August 1998 |
| Runtime: | 114 min |
Cast and Crew
as Capt. William Rivers
as 2nd Lt. Billy Prior
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