27 Jul 97-Year-Old Dunkirk Veteran Moved To Tears At Dunkirk Film Screening

Christopher Nolan’s film, Dunkirk, reigned supreme over theaters at the weekend. The critically-acclaimed film, which depicts one of the darkest moments of World War II for British forces, stormed the box office, bringing in an impressive $106 million globally.

Starring Fion Whitehead and Cillian Murphy, the movie gave audiences an insight into how the German Army cornered the British and French armies on the beaches around Dunkirk, trapping 330,000 men and making them a sitting target. Anyone with half a heart had to be moved at the moment when 328,000 men out of 400,000 men were saved from death, an event that historians hail as a “miracle”.

For most viewers, the movie was fiction. Although they could try to imagine, theatre audiences had little idea of what it was actually like to be shivering on the French beach, dressed head-to-toe in army uniform and having no idea if you’d make it home to see your family ever again.

But for one man at the cinema, the work of art was all too real.

Ken Sturdy, a 97-year-old war veteran, survived the historic nine-day battle of Dunkirk in May 1940, but claims that watching the film was just like being back there again. After attending the film’s premiere in Calgary, Ken burst into tears, remembering the friends he lost all those years ago, and crying because it’s clear that humans still haven’t learned their lesson all these years later.

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