VESNZ- Preview Screening- Hacksaw Ridge
Time: 10.30am
Location: Reading Courtenay Place, Wellington – Cinema 3
Hacksaw Ridge is the extraordinary true story of Desmond Doss (Andrew Garfield) who, in Okinawa during the bloodiest battle of Word War II, saved 75 men without firing or carrying a gun. He was the only American soldier in WWII to fight on the front lines without carrying a weapon as he believed that while the war was justified, killing was nevertheless wrong. As an army medic he single-handedly evacuated the wounded from behind enemy lines, braved fire while tending to soldiers and was wounded by a grenade and hit by snipers. Doss was the first conscientious objector awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor.
Duration: 130 mins