2018 0331 WWI Film Matinée Series

AF07

Date: March 31, 2018

Time:  11:00

Film title:  Regeneration

Location: Tulsa Historical Society, 2445 South Peoria Avenue, Tulsa
Lt. Siegfried Sassoon (James Wilby), a poet and war veteran, is facing court-martial for publicly decrying British conduct in World War I. His poet friend Robert Graves (Dougray Scott) pulls strings to get Sassoon placed in a psychiatric war hospital in Scotland, where soldiers are to be swiftly rehabilitated and sent back into battle. There, Sassoon meets a sympathetic doctor (Jonathan Pryce) and also Wilfred Owen (Stuart Bunce), whom he encourages to pursue poetry as a form of wartime therapy.
Initial release: November 21, 1997
Directors: Gillies MacKinnon, Tamara Winston
Music composed by: Michael Danna
Adapted from: Regeneration, a novel by Pat Barker

More details: https://tulsahistory.org/film-series-birdsong-part-1/

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