Christopher Nolan’s DUNKIRK First Look Video

Warner Bros. has released the first video for Christopher Nolan’s epic action thriller, DUNKIRK, which comes to cinemas July 21, 2017.

Tom Hardy (“The Revenant,” “Mad Max: Fury Road,” “Inception”), Mark Rylance (“Bridge of Spies,” “Wolf Hall”), Kenneth Branagh (“My Week with Marilyn,” “Hamlet,” “Henry V”) and Cillian Murphy (“Inception,” “The Dark Knight” Trilogy) star, as well as newcomer Fionn Whitehead.  The ensemble cast also includes Harry Styles (One Direction) making his feature film debut.

Christopher Nolan (“Interstellar,” “Inception,” “The Dark Knight” Trilogy) is directing DUNKIRK from his own original screenplay, utilizing a mixture of IMAX and 65mm film to bring the story to the screen.

DUNKIRK opens as hundreds of thousands of British and Allied troops are surrounded by enemy forces. Trapped on the beach with their backs to the sea they face an impossible situation as the enemy closes in.

According to BBC:

Taking place between 26 May to 4 June 1940, heavy German bombing had destroyed Dunkirk’s harbour, and there were hundreds of thousands of men on the beach, hoping to be rescued. The Luftwaffe attacked whenever the weather allowed, reducing the town of Dunkirk to rubble.

On 29 May, the evacuation was announced to the British public, and many privately owned boats started arriving at Dunkirk to ferry the troops to safety. This flotilla of small vessels famously became known as the ‘Little Ships’. The contribution these civilian vessels made to the Dunkirk evacuation gave rise to the term ‘Dunkirk spirit’, an expression still used to describe the British ability to rally together in the face of adversity.

Although the Germans had taken over a million Allied prisoners in three weeks at a cost of 60,000 casualties, the evacuation was a major boost to British morale and enabled the Allies to fight another day – even if that fight was to be on home turf, resisting the expected German invasion of Britain.