Benediction
- Runtime
- 2h 17m
- Release Date
- 20 May 2022
- Genres
- Drama
- Classification description
- 12A
- Directed by
- Terence Davies
- Starring
- Jeremy Irvine, Peter Capaldi, Kate Phillips, Jack Lowden, Edmund Kingsley, Harry Lawtey, Calam Lynch
- Synopsis
- Benediction explores the turbulent life of First World War poet Siegfried Sassoon, played by Lowden and Capaldi during different stages of his life. Sassoon was a complex man who survived the horrors of fighting in the First World War and was decorated for his bravery, but who became a vocal critic of the government’s continuation of the war when he returned from service. His poetry was inspired by his experiences on the Western Front and he became one of the leading war poets of the era.