

Hope runs deep.
During World War I, a group of British miners are recruited to tunnel underneath no man's land and set bombs from below the German front in hopes of breaking the deadly stalemate of the Battle of Messines.
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Classical in form, earnest, grave and resolved.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- resolvedopen-ended
- character-ledplot-driven
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Cast
- Sam HazeldineWilliam Hawkin
- Tom Goodman-HillHellfire Jack
- Kris HitchenHarold Stockford
- Elliot J. LangridgeGeorge MacDonald
- Sam ClemmettCharlie MacDonald
- Joseph SteyneShorty
- Sonny Ashbourne SerkisHenry
- Anna MaguireJane Hawkin
- Andrew ScarboroughColonel Fielding
- Douglas ReithField Marshal Haig
Crew
- J.P. WattsDirector
- Thomas WoodsScreenplay
- J.P. WattsScreenplay
- Nick CookeDirector of Photography
- Anne KulonenOriginal Music Composer
- William KnochelProducer
- Luis GuerreroProducer
- Chris LemosProducer
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