The moving portrayal of life in the trenches in WW1 now a new film from the director of Suite Francaise starring Sam Clafin Paul Bettany Stephen Graham & Asa Butterfield Set in the First World War Journey's End is the story of a group of British officers on the front line in a dugout in the trenches in France Raleigh a new eighteen-year-old officer fresh out of English public school joins the besieged company of his friend & cricketing hero Stanhope & finds him dramatically changed Laurence Olivier starred as Stanhope in the first performance of Journey's End in 1928; the play was an instant stage success & remains a remarkable anti-war classic' Its unrelenting tension & its regard for human decency in a vast world of human waste are impressive & even now moving' Clive Barnes