War Requiem (1989)

Derek Jarman's film based on Britton's War Requiem. The main character is Irving, the author of the Requiem of War, an English poet who died in the first World War. The venerable Sir Lawrence Oliver plays a veteran in the film. This is also Sir Oliver's last screen appearance. A film with no dialogs, just follows the lyrics of the Britten's oratorium, that criticize the war's horrors. It shows the story of an englishman soldier and a nurse (his bride) during the World War II. It combines many real scenes of contemporary wars (WWII, Vietn...)