Regeneration (1997)

Directors

Gillies MacKinnon

Cast

Jonathan Pryce, James Wilby, Jonny Lee Miller, Stuart Bunce

The story

The film starts with Siegfried Sassoon's open letter of July 1917, Finished with the War: A Soldier's Declaration, inveighing "against the political errors and insincerities for which the fighting men are being sacrificed". The letter published in The Times, receives much attention because Sassoon is considered a hero for acts of valour, having received the Military Cross, which later Sassoon throws away. With the influence of Robert Graves, a fellow poet and friend, the army sends Sassoon to Craiglockhart War Hospital, a psychiatric facility, rather than court-martialling him.

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