Commandos de l'ombre

Commandos de l'ombre (Beneath Hill 60) est un film australien réalisé par Jeremy Sims et diffusé le 2 août 2011 sur Canal+. D'après l'extraordinaire histoire vraie de Oliver Woodward qui quitte en 1916 sa jeune femme pour rejoindre les tranchées boueuses de la Grande Guerre. Loin derrière les lignes allemandes, Woodward et son peloton de mineurs australiens travaillent à maintenir un labyrinthe de tunnels bourrés d'explosifs qui pourraient bien changer le cours de la guerre... 

Fiche technique

• Titre original : Beneath Hill 60
• Titre français : Commandos de l'ombre
• Directed by Jeremy Hartley Sims
• Produced by : Bill Leimbach
• Written by : David Roach
• Music by : Cezary Skubiszewski
• CinematographyToby Oliver
• Edited by : Dany Cooper
• Distributed by : Paramount Pictures
• Running time : 122 min
• Country : Australia
• Language : English
• Budget : $8,140,500
• Box office : $3,440,939
• Scénario : David Roach
• Pays d'origine : Australie
• Durée : 122 minutes
• Date de sortie : Australie : 15 avril 2010

Distribution

• Brendan Cowell as Oliver Woodward
• Alan Dukes as Jim Sneddon
• Alex Thompson as Walter Sneddon
• Harrison Gilbertson as Frank Tiffin
• Duncan Young as Tom Dwyer
• Steve Le Marquand as Bill Fraser
• Gyton Grantley as Norman Morris
• Warwick Young as Percy Marsden
• Mark Coles Smith as Billy Bacon
• Martin Thomas as Ginger O'Donnell
• Oliver Leimbach as Screaming Soldier (Youngston)
• Anthony Hayes as William McBride
• Leon Ford as Lt. Robert Clayton
• Fletcher Illidge as Colin Waddell
• Morgan Illidge as Gordon Waddell
• Jacqueline McKenzie as Mrs. Emma Waddell
• Juliana Dodd as Isabel Waddell
• Gerald Lepkowski as William Waddell
• Bella Heathcote as Marjorie Waddell (credited as Isabella Heathcote)
• Chris Haywood as Colonel Wilson Rutledge
• Bob Franklin as Potsy
• Anthony Ring as Stoat
• Nikki Fort as Mrs. Thorn
• Alice Cavanagh as Agnes
• Simon Coomes as Rex Astros
• Mahala Wallace as Eunice
• Jessica Robertson as Dotty (credited as Jessica Paige)
• Marcus Costello as Ernst Wagner
• Kenneth Spiteri as Karl Babek
• Aden Young as Major Brady North (3rd Canadian Tunnelling Company - Nova Scotia)
• David Ritchie as Otto Fusslein
• Tom Green as Warren Hutchings
• John Stanton as General Lambert
• Andy Bramble as Wilf Piggott