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Regeneration

Adaptation of Pat Barker's prizewinning novel. Psychiatrist William Rivers is troubled when war hero Siegfried Sassoon is declared mentally ill for making an anti-war comment.

Adaptation of Pat Barker's prizewinning novel set in a Scottish hospital during the First World War. Eminent psychiatrist William Rivers questions his values and training when charged with treating victims of shell shock, only to send them back into active service at the front. He is particularly challenged when the poet and decorated soldier Siegfried Sassoon is declared mentally ill for making an anti-war statement.

1 hour, 49 minutes

Last on

Sun 16 Nov 2014 23:30

Credits

Role Contributor
Dr William Rivers Jonathan Pryce
Billy Prior Jonny Lee Miller
Sarah Tanya Allen
Dr Yealland John Neville
Siegfried Sassoon James Wilby
Robert Graves Dougray Scott
Dr Bryce David Hayman
Wilfred Owen Stuart Bunce
Dr Brock Paul Young
Capt. Campbell Alastair Galbraith
Director Gillies MacKinnon
Author Pat Barker

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