Oscar-winning director Sam Mendes (Skyfall, NT Live’s The Lehman Trilogy) brings a singular vision to his wartime epic. At the height of the Great War two British soldiers (George MacKay, Dean-Charles Chapman) are given a seemingly impossible mission: they must cross enemy territory to deliver a message that will stop 1600 men from walking into a deadly trap laid by the retreating German army. Shot in a dramatic ‘single take’ by master cinematographer Roger Deakins and performed in real-time by an epic cast, Mendes has crafted a breathtaking cinematic experience and an immediate Oscar frontrunner.