The Somme: From Defeat to Victory
The Somme: From Defeat to Victory
Release: 2006-07-02
·Runtime: 58m
History
War
Documentary
Based on diaries, records and eyewitness accounts, this is the story of the two Battles of the Somme from the perspective of British and German soldiers. It shows how the major lessons learned by the British Army leadership after the disastrous first attacks of July 1916 were turned into victory at the second attempt in September 1916, arguably the turning point for the First World War.
Production Countries
Germany
United Kingdom
Production Companies
BBC
NDR
The Open University
Cast
Wolf Kahler
as General von Plessen
Crispin Redman
as Lt-Col. Maxwell
Benedict Sandiford
as Captain Johnston
Rüdiger Kuhlbrodt
as General von Soden
Peter Stark
as Knaupp
John Vine
as Brig-Gen. Shoubridge
Iain McKee
as Fiddes, Routledge
Erich Redman
as Hassler
Eric Carte
as Lt-Gen. Morland
Thorston Manderlay
as Schmitt
Alisdair Simpson
as Himself - Narrator (voice)
Georg Alfred Wittner
as Captain Fischer
Steffan Boje
as Hinkel