Regeneration is a 1997 film adaptation of the novel of the same name by Pat Barker. The film is directed by Gillies MacKinnon. It was released as Behind the Lines in the USA in 1998. The film starts by referencing Siegfried Sassoon's open letter dated July 1917, protesting the conduct and insincerities of the First World War. The letter has been published in The Times and has received much attention in England. With the string-pulling and guidance of Robert Graves, a fellow poet and friend of Sassoon, the army agrees to send Sassoon to Craiglockhart War Hospital, a psychiatric facility in... Scotland, rather than court-martialling him. At Craiglockhart, Sassoon meets Dr. William Rivers, a former anthropologist turned psychiatrist who encourages his patients to express their war memories so that they can “heal their nerves”. There is no clear main character in this film, but there is more focus on several of the characters; notably, Billy Prior, Siegfried Sassoon and Dr. Rivers himself. A very important secondary character, Wilfred Owen, is linked to Sassoon’s storyline.
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| Release date: | November 21, 1997 |
| Directed by: | Gillies MacKinnon, Tamara Winston, J.H. Wyman |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 96 Minutes |
| Producer: | Allan Scott, Peter R. Simpson |
| Editor: | Pia Di Ciaula |
| Music by: | Mychael Danna |
| Cinematography: | Glen MacPherson |
| Screenplay by: | Allan Scott |
| Adapted from: | Regeneration |