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Hunger: Directed by Steve McQueen. With Stuart Graham, Laine Megaw, Brian Milligan, Liam McMahon. Irish republican Bobby Sands leads the inmates of a Northern Irish prison in a hunger strike.
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- Biography, Crime, Drama
- Steve McQueen
- 2008-10-31
Hunger is a 2008 historical drama film about the 1981 Irish hunger strike. It was directed by Steve McQueen (in his feature directorial debut) and starred Michael Fassbender, Liam Cunningham, and Liam McMahon. It premiered at the 2008 Cannes Film Festival, [3] winning the prestigious Caméra d'Or award for first-time filmmakers. [4]
McQueen dramatizes prison existence and Sands’s final days in a way that is purely experiential, even abstract, a succession of images full of both beauty and horror. Featuring an intense performance by Michael Fassbender, Hunger is an unflinching, transcendent depiction of what a human being is willing to endure to be heard.
- Bobby Sands
Steve McQueen's Hunger, essentially a film told in two parts, is a wildly stylish but dark and harrowing story of The Troubles in Northern Ireland. In the first portion, set almost entirely within ...
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- Michael Fassbender
- Steve Mcqueen
- Drama, History
The film opens with prison guard Raymond Lohan (Stuart Graham) preparing to leave for work; checking under his car for bombs, putting on his uniform in the locker room, and ignoring the camaraderie of his colleagues. Davey (Brian Milligan), a new IRA prisoner, arrives at the gaol. Due to his refusal to wear the prison uniform, he is labeled ...
Apr 15, 2009 · Crime. 90 minutes ‧ NR ‧ 2008. Roger Ebert. April 15, 2009. 3 min read. Michael Fassbender as Bobby Sands in "Hunger." It was a desperate business, and “Hunger” is a desperate film. It concerns the fierce battle between the Irish Republican Army and the British state, which in 1981 led to a hunger strike in which 10 IRA prisoners died.
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Dec 5, 2008 · The story of Bobby Sands, the IRA member who led the 1981 hunger strike during The Troubles in which Irish Republican prisoners tried to win political status. Steve McQueen. Director, Writer. Enda Walsh. Writer.
