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| Chapter 8: Trenches
of Hell |
| The Somme/Germany - 1916 |
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Directed
by: Simon Wincer
Story by: George
Lucas
Screenplay by:
Jonathan Hensleigh
Music by: Frederic
Talgorn
Executive Producer:
George Lucas
Produced by:
Rick McCallum
Starring:
Sean Patrick Flanery ....
Indiana Jones
Ronny Coutteure .... Remy Baudouin
Carl Duering ....Richter
Jamie Glover .... Robert Graves
Hervé Pauchon .... Charles De Gaulle
Richard Ridings .... André
Stevan Rimkus .... Siegfried Sassoon
Jason Flemyng .... Emile
Richard Ridings .... Andra
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| The Story
As a young soldier in the Belgian
Army, Indy learns firsthand the savagery of warfare
while participating in the Battle
of the Somme. Almost succumbing to despair,
as his life becomes an endless round of artillery
barrages, nerve gas attacks and decaying corpses,
Indy fears that death will be his only way out.
Then he is captured by the Germans and confined
to a POW camp where he and fellow prisoner Charles
de Gaulle hatch a daring scheme to win their freedom
in true "Great Escape" style.
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Famous people encounters:
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Charles
De Gaulle
French general and politician. During World
War I he served with distinction until
his capture in 1916. And during World
War II he gained enormous popularity
as the leader of Free French forces in exile.
Later he emerged as the first president (1959-69)
of the Fifth Republic. |
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Robert
Graves
English novelist, critic and classical scholar
who carried on many of the formal traditions
of English verse in a period of experimentation.
He wrote more than 120 books, including the
historical novel, I,
Claudius. |
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Siegfried
Sassoon
English novelist known for his antiwar poetry
and for his fictionalized autobiographies,
praised for their evocation of English country
life. |
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| Release dates:
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First
air date:
October 24, 1999 |
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Video
release:
October 26, 1999
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DVD release:
Dec. 18, 2007 |
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| This Chapter
contains former episodes: |
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Somme,
Early August 1916 (1)
Episode #9 (Season 2-2)
Originally aired: September 28, 1992 on ABC |
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Germany,
Mid-August 1916 (2)
Episode #10 (Season 2-3)
Originally aired: October 5, 1992 on ABC
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