Benediction

Benediction (2024)

2024

Drama / History / War

5.7 from 10 with total 9 votes

2022-05-13

137 minutes

The story of soldier and poet Siegfried Sassoon (1886–1967), who was decorated for bravery on the Western Front, and is best remembered for his angry and compassionate poems about the First World War, which brought him public and critical acclaim. Avoiding the sentimentality and jingoism of many war poets, Sassoon wrote of the horror and brutality of trench warfare and contemptuously satirised generals, politicians, and churchmen for their incompetence and blind support of the war.

Jack Lowden character Siegfried Sassoon

Peter Capaldi character Siegfried Sassoon (Older)

Simon Russell Beale character Robbie Ross

Jeremy Irvine character Ivor Novello

Calam Lynch character Stephen Tennant

Tom Blyth character Glen Byam Shaw

Kate Phillips character Hester Gatty

Geraldine James character Theresa Thornycroft

Gemma Jones character Hester Gatty (Older)

Ben Daniels character Dr. Rivers

Edmund Kingsley character Rex Whistler

Harry Lawtey character Bobby Andrews

Anton Lesser character Stephen Tennant (Older)

Lia Williams character Edith Sitwell

Suzanne Bertish character Lady Ottoline Morrell

Jude Akuwudike character Priest

Joanna Bacon character Lady Sybil Colefax

Stacey Lynn Crowe character Nurse

Thom Ashley character Hamo Sassoon

Jamie-Lee Beacher character Nurse

Paddy Rowan character Young Soldier

Matthew Tennyson character Wilfred Owen

David Shields character Alexander Fenton

Julian Sands character Chief Medical Officer

Edward Bennett character T.E. Lawrence