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Hunger 29 November 09
Section: article
Categories: Film / dvd
This film was a very pleasant surprise. It was intelligently made and a powerful portrayal of the incarceration and death of the IRA martyr Bobby Gerald Sands, who died of a hunger strike in 1981 while a political prisoner at the British prison, Long Kesh (the Maze).
This adds to the list of films I’ve watched recently on the history of Ireland, for example the remarkable film The Wind that Shakes the Barley, and Fifty Dead Men Walking
The actor who brilliantly played Bobby Sands was Michael Fassbender, who is German-Irish. He was born in Heidelberg to an Irish mother and German father, then raised from the age of two in Ireland. He is related to Michael Collins.
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Bobby Sands
Steve McQueen (artist)
Michael Fassbender
Michael Collins (Irish Leader)
- Title: Hunger
- Directed by: Steve McQueen
- Writing credits: Steve McQueen, Enda Walsh
- Starring: Michael Fassbender, Stuart Graham, Rory Mullen
- Year: 2008
- Further details: 96 minutes
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