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Based on a true story, "Regeneration" is about a
psychiatrist and three of his patients at a British military hospital
during WWI.
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Dr. William Rivers (Jonathan Pryce), has begun
to hover on the edge of a breakdown as a result of his close
involvement with his patients.
Siegried Sassoon (James Wilby), a brilliant and
heroic soldier is sent to the asylum after
publishing an outspoken and illegal anti-war pamphlet.
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Wilfred Owen (Stuart Bunce), whose support from Sassoon
enabled him to write what is now regarded as the finest poetry
to emerge from the First World War is also a fellow patient.
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Billy Prior (Jonny Lee Miller), is an officer who cracks under
the terrible emotional pressure of war. While being
treated at the hospital, Prior falls in love with a local girl
(Tanya Allen) whose tenderness and passion put him on the road
to recovery. |
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Regeneration takes a serious look at the tolls
on the human psychic caused by the horrors of man's inhumanity
to man in the arena we call War. |