When Sergeant Michael Dunne (Paul Gross, Gunless) is wounded in battle during World War I, he is sent home to Calgary, Alberta. While recovering from his injuries, he becomes enamored with Sarah Mann (Caroline Dhavernas, Breach), a beautiful young nurse. Sarah's brother, David, desperately wants to follow in Michael's heroic footsteps in order to impress his girlfriend's father, but he is not able to /5(). Directed by Paul Gross Synopsis Sergeant Michael Dunne fights in the 10th Battalion, AKA The "Fighting Tenth" with the 1st Canadian Division and participated in all major Canadian battles of the war, and set the record for highest number of individual bravery awards for a single battle/5(). Sgt. Dunne (Paul Gross) returns to war to look after a nurse's brother%.
The Battle of Passchendaele was one of the major battles of WWI and has become synonymous with the misery of fighting in thick, sodden mud. Against this setting, Passchendaele tells the story of Sergeant Michael Dunne, and the love of the nurse who cared for him. Michael returns to Europe to protect her soldier brother David, and to fight in the horrific third battle of Ypres. Canadian talent Paul Gross writes, directs and stars in Passchendaele, a World War I drama following the intertwined lives of a troubled veteran, his nurse and her younger brother in wartime Canada in this well-staged historical drama.. At the peak of the First World War, Sergeant Michael Dunne (Paul Gross) returns to Calgary emotionally and physically scarred after being brutally wounded. One of those stories comprises the opening scene of "Passchendaele," in which the film's hero, Sgt. Michael Dunne, played by Gross, ruthlessly slays a young German soldier at close range. Gross.
the Battle of Passchendaele. Paul Gross has spoken widely about this family connection, one of the reasons that impelled him to make this film. In a Herculean effort, Gross raised nearly $20 million, making Passchendaele the most expensive movie in Canadian history. It was also the highest grossing Canadian film of , earning $ million on. It is November , and Michael, David and the rest of the Fighting 10th are about to plunge into the hell known as Passchendaele. Based on the epic Canadian motion picture written by, starring and directed by Paul Gross, Passchendaele immortalizes the story of a battle that has become synonymous with the horrors of the First World War. Yet Passchendaele was also the scene of Allied victory, a triumph carried by Canadians, and one that helped form who we are as a nation. The motion picture Passchendaele, an epic set amidst the horror of war, was shot in Alberta from.
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