Regeneration

WWI soldiers and poets Sigfried Sassoon and Wilfred Owen are sent to a mental hospital to try to deal with their war experiences., Adaptation of Pat Barker’s prize-winning novel set in a Scottish hospital during the First World War. Eminent psychiatrist William Rivers questions his values and training when charged with treating victims of shell shock, only to send them back into active service at the Front. He is particularly challenged when the poet and decorated soldier Siegfried Sassoon is declared mentally ill for making an anti-war statement. Dir: Gillies MacKinnon., Adaptation of Pat Barker’s prize-winning novel set in a Scottish hospital during the First World War. Eminent psychiatrist William Rivers questions his values and training when charged with treating victims of shell shock, only to send them back into active service at the Front. He is particularly challenged when the poet and decorated soldier Siegfried Sassoon is declared mentally ill for making an anti-war statement., Based on the novel by Pat Barker this atmospheric film charts the emotional troubles of solidiers including poets Wilfred Owen and Siegfried Sasson during WWI., Adaptation of Pat Barker’s prize-winning novel set in a Scottish hospital during the First World War. Eminent psychiatrist William Rivers questions his values and training when charged with healing the mentally wounded, only to send them back into active service at the Front. He is particularly challenged when the poet and decorated soldier Siegfried Sassoon is declared mentally ill for making an anti-war statement.