Rent The Wipers Times (2013)
3.6 of 5 from 72 ratings
2h 30min
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- Synopsis:
- In the bombed-out ruins of Ypres in 1916, Captain Fred Roberts and Lieutenant Jack Pearson discovered a printing press. They used it to produce The Wipers Times a humorous - a humorous, satirical and subversive trench newspaper which proved hugely popular with soldiers - though not entirely with their superior officers. Braving constant bombardment and bitter fighting, The Wipers Times survived the Somme and made it through to the end of the war. Roberts and Pearson were highly decorated - yet were unrecognised in their lifetime. The Wipers Times is a story of the extraordinary resilience of the human spirit in the face of overwhelming adversity.
- Actors:
- Ben Chaplin, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Patrick FitzSymons, Steve Oram, Josh O'Connor, Jarrod Cooke, Colin Ash, Hugh Skinner, Ben Daniels, Michael Palin, Richard Doubleday, Paul Kennedy, Emma Little Lawless, Emilia Fox, Faolan Morgan, Hugh David Irvine, Matthew McMillan, Kris Tait, Bennett Warden
- Directors:
- Andy De Emmony
- Producers:
- David Parfitt
- Writers:
- Ian Hislop, Nick Newman
- Studio:
- IMC Vision
- Genres:
- Action & Adventure, Drama
- Collections:
- And Now For Something Completely Similar: Solo Pythons, Cinema and the First World War, Drama Films & TV
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Liked it - The Wipers Times review by CC
Quirky little film brilliantly acted and showing heroism, humour and the relationships between the soldiers doing the actual fighting with the military staff behind the lines and giving the orders. A different viewpoint of WW1.
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