Dunkirk
Dunkirk is a 2017 historical war thriller film written, directed, and co-produced by Christopher Nolan that depicts the Dunkirk evacuation of World War II from the perspectives of the land, sea, and air. It features an ensemble cast including Fionn Whitehead, Tom Glynn-Carney, Jack Lowden, Harry Styles in his feature film debut, Aneurin Barnard, James D'Arcy, Barry Keoghan, Kenneth Branagh, Cillian Murphy, Mark Rylance, and Tom Hardy.
Plot
In 1940, during the Battle of France, Allied soldiers retreat to Dunkirk encircled by the enemy. Tommy loses his squadmates and flees through the perimeter held by French troops to the beach, where thousands await evacuation, and helps Gibson to bury a body. After Luftwaffe dive-bombers attack, they attempt to board a hospital ship at the single, vulnerable mole available for embarking on deep-draft ships, by rushing a wounded man on a stretcher but are ordered off. They overhear Commander Bolton, Colonel Winnant and a Rear Admiral discuss the best way to get their army evacuated. The ship is sunk by dive bombers; Tommy saves a Highlanders regiment soldier, Alex. The three board a destroyer, but it is hit by a torpedo before it can depart; Gibson saves Tommy and Alex as the ship sinks, and they return to the beach.
Awards
Cast
- Adam Long
- Aneurin Barnard
- Armie Hammer
- Barry Keoghan
- Billy Howle
- Bobby Lockwood
- Brian Vernel
- Cardi B
- Cillian Murphy
- Damien Bonnard
- Elliott Tittensor
- Fionn Whitehead
- Harry Styles
- Jack Lowden
- James D'Arcy
- Jochum ten Haaf
- John Nolan
- Kenneth Branagh
- Mark Rylance
- Michael Caine
- Olivia Wilde
- Tom Glynn-Carney
- Tom Hardy
- Will Attenborough