Hunger

Release Date:

Mar 20, 2009

Running Time:

1:32

Genre:

Drama,Historical Drama

Director:

Steve McQueen

Cast:

Michael Fassbender	Bobby Sands
Liam Cunningham	Father Moran
Stuart Graham	Ray Lohan
Brian Milligan	Davey Gillen
Liam McMahon	Gerry Campbell
Helena Bereen	Ray's mother
Laine Megaw	Mrs. Lohan
Lalor Roddy	William

Producers:

Iain Canning , Peter Carlton , Edmund Coulthard , Linda James

Writers:

Steve McQueen, Enda Walsh

Language:

English

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The Interrogation

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The Boxer

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Doing Time

Five Minutes of Heaven

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Focusing on the 1981 hunger strikes by Republican prisoners in Northern Ireland. Bobby Sands is one of a group of prisoners who first ``took to the blanket'' with a ``dirty protest'' in pursuit of their claims for recognition as political prisoners. Sands then became the first one of the group to embark on a hunger strike that was to end in his death.

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