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STEPHEN GRAHAM
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The IrishmanNICK DE SEMLYEN
Associate Editor (Features),
EmpireIAN FREER
Contributing Editor,
EmpireCHRIS HEWITT
Associate Editor & Podcast
Host,EmpireCHRISTINA NEWLAND
Contributor,
EmpireJOHN NUGENT
News Editor,
EmpireIan Freer: 1917 follows British Lance Corporals
Will Schofield (George MacKay) and Tom Blake
(Dean-Charles Chapman) across No Man’s Land
to deliver a letter calling off a charge at the
Hindenburg Line, saving 1600 lives. Unusually for
a war film, it features very little combat, a thread
of pacifism baked into its central conceit.Krysty Wilson-Cairns:One of the things I’m
really proud of is that Sam [Mendes] and I wrote
a war movie where two men are charging through
the world to stop a battle. As much as I love
reading about it, I think war is complete human
failure. I believe it is the worst thing we can do to
each other. I don’t ever want to glorify war. The
First World War can’t be glorified. You can glorify
the memory of the men who fought, the men who
died, but you cannot glorify the mud and the
death. It was absolute carnage.1917
1 THE PREMISE
Top:George MacKay’s Schofield in the midst of battle.
Right:And in a quieter moment with fellow Lance Corporal
Blake, played by Dean-Charles Chapman.