Journey's End

Journey's End brings R.C. Sherriff's classic thought-provoking play about the futility and slaughter of the first world war to the screen with thrilling power, thanks to director Saul Dibb's hard-hitting urgency and brilliant work from a talented cast.

Set in a dugout on the Western Front in April 1918, it is the emotionally-charged story of a group of British officers, led by a mentally-disintegrating young captain, as – with a massive German attack imminent - they await their fate. 

The dramatic action is opened out, whilst always conveying the cramped claustrophobia of this tragic trench-based ordeal, and the dynamic and observant camerawork helps drive the tense momentum.

The OFS is showing this film to support Oswestry’s first Wilfred Owen Festival – Owen the town’s own tragic young officer who died on the front, but whose poetry about the futility of war and the sacrifices made by so many have earned…