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IRELAND · 2008

Hunger

Steve McQueen
political imprisonment hunger strike Irish independence prison brutality martyrdom
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Synopsis

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.

Year2008
CountryIreland
DirectorSteve McQueen
Cinematic Threads
In a 2008 interview around the release of Hunger, Steve McQueen said that Alan Clarke’s ‘Scum’ and ‘Elephant’ ‘showed me that you could make British cinema with a sense of reality, but also with style’.
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