SAM HAZELDINE

THE LAST DUEL (2021)
Starring Ben Affleck, Adam Driver, Matt Damon, Jodie Comer, Harriet Walter, Nathaniel Parker, Brian F. Mulvey, Ian Pirie, Sam Hazeldine and Michael McElhatton. Directed by Ridley Scott.

France’s last sanctioned duel between Jean de Carrouges and Jacques Le Gris, two friends turned bitter rivals. Carrouges is a respected knight known for his bravery and skill on the battlefield. Le Gris is a Norman squire whose intelligence and eloquence make him one of the most admired nobles in court. When Carrouges’ wife, Marguerite, is viciously assaulted by Le Gris, a charge he denies, she refuses to stay silent, stepping forward to accuse her attacker, an act of bravery and defiance that puts her life in jeopardy. The ensuing trial by combat, a gruelling duel to the death, places the fate of all three in God’s hands.

'71 (2015)
Starring Jack O'Connell, Sean Harris, Paul Anderson, Sam Reid, Sam Hazeldine, Barry Keoghan, Charlie Murphy, Richard Dormer, Killian Scott and Babou Ceesay. Directed by Yann Demange.

A young British soldier is accidentally abandoned by his unit following a riot on the streets of Belfast in 1971, where he must then attempt to survive the night.

REVIEWS '71 - Realistically harrowing

THE MONUMENTS MEN (2014)
Starring Matt Damon, Cate Blanchett, George Clooney, Bill Murray, John Goodman, Hugh Bonneville, Sam Hazeldine, Jean Dujardin, Bob Balaban and Holger Handtke. Directed by George Clooney.

Based on the true story of the greatest treasure hunt in history, The Monuments Men is an action-thriller focusing on an unlikely World War II platoon, tasked by FDR with going into Germany to rescue artistic masterpieces from Nazi thieves and returning them to their rightful owners. It would be an impossible mission: with the art trapped behind enemy lines, and with the German army under orders to destroy everything as the Reich fell, how could these guys – seven museum directors, curators, and art historians, all more familiar with Michelangelo than the M-1 – possibly hope to succeed? But as the Monuments Men, as they were called, found themselves in a race against time to avoid the destruction of 1000 years of culture, they would risk their lives to protect and defend mankind’s greatest achievements.

REVIEWS The Monuments Men - Fighting a losing battle