The Trenches
(2010)
★ 7.1 IMDb · 6 votes
Year: 2010
Runtime: 6 мин
Country: Canada
Director: Claude Cloutier
Cast: Gabriel Boileau-Cloutier, Marc-André Bélanger, David Laurin, Martin Watier, Patrick Chouinard, Alexandre Fortin, Guillaume Champoux
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.