Director : William Boyd
Actors : Paul Nicholas, Daniel Craig, Julian Rhind-Tutt, James d'Arcy, Anthony Strachan, Danny Dyer, Willialms Tam, Ciaran Mc Manamin, Michael Moreland, Ben Whishaw, John Higgins, Cillian Murphy, Adrian Lukis, Tim Murphy, Danny Nutt, Charles Cartmell, Tom Mullion
Feature film, Fiction , Drama
Production language : English
Nationality : Majority French (Great Britain)
French release : 4/19/00
Runtime : 1h 40mn
Current status : Released
Associate production company : Blue PM
Co-production : Skyline Film et Télévision Production, Somme Productions Ltd, Galatée Films
French distribution : Mars Distribution

1 July, 1916. The first day of the Battle of the Somme where 60,000 British soldiers were killed or wounded, most of them in the first two hours of battle. The bloodiest day in all of the British Army's history. "La Tranchée" tells the story of a group of thirty young soldiers in the two days following the first attack. Only the sergeant is a career officer. One of them, Billy MacFarlane, joined up to follow his brother. He's 17. For two days, these young, barely adult, men will be confronted by imminent death.