Benediction

England

137 min

2022

Jack Lowden Lia Williams Suzanne Bertish Jude Akuwudike Joanna Bacon Stacey Lynn Crowe Jamie-Lee Beacher Matthew Tennyson David Shields Julian Sands Anton Lesser Harry Lawtey Peter Capaldi Simon Russell Beale Jeremy Irvine Calam Lynch Tom Blyth Kate Phillips Geraldine James Gemma Jones Ben Daniels Edward Bennett

The story of soldier and poet Siegfried Sassoon (1886–1967), who was decorated for bravery on the Western Front, and is best remembered for his angry and compassionate poems about the First World War, which brought him public and critical acclaim. Avoiding the sentimentality and jingoism of many war poets, Sassoon wrote of the horror and brutality of trench warfare and contemptuously satirised generals, politicians, and churchmen for their incompetence and blind support of the war.