During the First World War, men faced questions about themselves never asked before on such a scale when the most enormously destructive conflict the world had ever seen felled tens of thousands every week. Some men broke, and found themselves in asylums. This is a film about some of these men, and some of those who treated them. It deals with a change in the conception of the world so vast that it needed a whole new language to deal with it.

GENRE: Drama
MPAA RATING: R
RUN TIME: 1h 38m
RELEASE DATE: August 14, 1998
STARRING: Jonathan Pryce, James Wilby, Jonny Lee Miller, David Hayman, Stuart Bunce
DIRECTOR(S): Gillies MacKinnon
PRODUCER(S): Allan Scott, Peter R. Simpson
WRITER(S): Pat Barker
STUDIO: Imperial Entertainment