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The Trench of Hope (La tranchée des espoirs, 2003) Director: Jean Louis Lorenzi While playing football, two children stumble across the grave of a French WWI infantryman who died in the trenches in 1918. His name was Pierre Delpech and in the last days of his life he and his comrades shared an extraordinary human adventure. Exhausted, cut off from the front, huddled in their trench, Pierre and four others bravely stood firm. Facing them was another trench containing five similar exhausted and determined Germans. Their only aim was to resist, whatever the cost, until reinforcements arrived. A poetic and moving gem of a film, in which the face of war is that of ordinary men whose only desire is to allow living. The artful direction is superb and the cast unvaryingly excellent.
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