The Trenches
La Tranchée
Watch the trenches soap2day. 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.
- Genre: Animation, War, Drama
- Country: Canada
- Director: Claude Cloutier
- Cast: Gabriel Boileau-Cloutier, Marc-André Bélanger, David Laurin, Martin Watier, Patrick Chouinard, Alexandre Fortin, Guillaume Champoux,
