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In Desperate Battle: Normandy 1944

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Calorie Rating: 146
Released: 1992-01-26
Running Time: 104 Minutes
Studios: CBC, ONF | NFB,


A documentary, using dramatization of fact, that examines the Battle of Verrières Ridge, where on July 25, 1944 and not long after D-Day, an inexperienced battalion of the Canadian Black Watch Regiment launched a doomed attack and was defeated with heavy casualties by veteran German SS troops. Part of "The Valour and the Horror" mini series.

Director / Directors



Cast

Terence McKenna
Character: Narrator
Roman Jarymowycz
Character: interviewer
Jacques Dextraze
Character: Self (Fusiliers Mont-Royal)

Sydney Radley-Walters
Character: Self (Sherbrooke Regiment)
Patrick Goyette
Character: Joseph Le Boutillier
Nicholas Campbell
Character: Guy Simonds

Adrian Hough
Character: German Officer
Wayne Robson
Character: Donald Pearce
Nigel Bennett
Character: Kurt Meyer

Stewart Arnott
Character: Harry Foster


Production and Crew


Roman Jarymowycz
Producer's Assistant

Neville Ottey
Cinematography
Robert Hackborn
Art Direction