Director: Christopher Nolan
Writer: Christopher Nolan
Stars: Fionn Whitehead, Damien Bonnard, Aneurin Barnard | See full cast & crew »
Dunkirk is a 2017 war film[nb 2] written, co-produced and directed by Christopher Nolan. It features an ensemble cast, starring Fionn Whitehead, Tom Glynn-Carney, Jack Lowden, Harry Styles, Aneurin Barnard, James D'Arcy, Barry Keoghan, Kenneth Branagh, Cillian Murphy, Mark Rylance and Tom Hardy. It portrays the Dunkirk evacuation of the Second World War. The film is an international co-production between the United Kingdom, the United States, France and the Netherlands, distributed by Warner Bros. Pictures.
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Nolan wrote the script, told from three perspectives — the land, sea and air — with little dialogue and to create suspense through visuals and music. Filming began in May 2016 in Dunkirk, France, and ended in Los Angeles, where it also began post-production. Cinematographer Hoyte van Hoytema shot the film on IMAX 65 mm and 65 mm large format film stock. It made extensive use of practical effects, such as employing thousands of extras, gathering boats that had participated in the real Dunkirk evacuation, and using era-appropriate planes for aerial sequences.
Dunkirk premiered on 13 July 2017 at Odeon Leicester Square in London, England and was released in the United Kingdom and United States on 21 July 2017 in IMAX, 70 mm and 35 mm film. The film has grossed over $269 million worldwide and received critical acclaim for Nolan's screenplay and direction, the acting and cinematography, with some critics calling it Nolan's best film to date, as well as one of the greatest war films ever made.
The narrative follows three major threads covering different periods of time: one beginning on land covering one week, one on the sea covering one day, and one in the air covering one hour. These are interwoven to create a non-linear narrative.
An introductory text states that in 1940, after the invasion of France by Nazi Germany, thousands of Allied soldiers retreated to the seaside town of Dunkirk. As the Allied perimeter shrinks and German forces close in, the soldiers await evacuation in a seemingly hopeless situation.
On land, Tommy, a young British private, is one of several soldiers who come under fire from unseen German soldiers on the streets of Dunkirk. He is the only one to make it to the beach, where he finds British and allied troops waiting for evacuation. He meets Gibson, another young soldier, who appears to be burying a friend. After a German air attack, they happen upon a wounded man left for dead, and they rush his stretcher up to the front of the queue to a ship evacuating the wounded. They are denied passage themselves, and hide on the mole, hoping to sneak aboard the next vessel. However the ship is attacked as it departs; in the chaos they save another soldier, Alex, from being crushed by the sinking ship. They get on another departing boat that night, but this is sunk by a torpedo from a U-boat. Gibson saves Tommy and Alex and they are taken to shore by the shell-shocked soldier.
Commander Bolton and Colonel Winnant review the situation. Winston Churchill has said that he will not be seeking peace and has committed to evacuating 30,000 soldiers. In order to evacuate more men the navy has requisitioned smaller civilian vessels which can sail up closer to the beach.
The next day, they join a group of Scottish soldiers who have located a grounded fishing trawler in the intertidal zone outside of the Allied perimeter. They hide in it hoping to use it to evacuate when the tide rises. Its owner, a Dutch seaman, returns and explains that he had left the boat to wait for the tide to rise. Soon after, the Germans shoot at the boat for target practice, unaware of the soldiers sheltering inside. When the tide rises, the bullet holes in the hull make it difficult to keep the boat afloat. Seeking to reduce their weight, Alex accuses Gibson, who has remained silent throughout, of being a German spy, and demands that he be put off. Tommy defends him, but Gibson reveals that he is French, and had stolen the identity of the soldier whom he had been burying, hoping then to evacuate with the British. The ensuing physical altercation rocks the boat upright and the seaman is able to start the engine. However, the boat is unable to get very far before it sinks. The men abandon ship, except for Gibson, who becomes tangled in a chain and drowns. Alex and Tommy swim for a nearby minesweeper, but this is sunk by a German bomber. Mr. Dawson's boat arrives and takes them on board, narrowly rescuing them from a burning oil slick. They cross the English Channel, see the coast of Dorset, and are placed on a train. Alex and Tommy expect that their retreat will earn them the scorn of the British public; instead, they receive a hero's welcome as Tommy reads the We shall fight on the beaches speech to Alex from a newspaper.
Back on the beach, Commander Bolton watches as the last British soldiers are evacuated. He confirms that 300,000 have been evacuated, ten times the number that they had hoped. He stays behind to oversee the evacuation of the French rearguard.
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