Hunger
Release date: 31 October 2008
Running time: 96 mins
Director: Steve McQueen
Starring: Michael Fassbender, Liam Cunningham, Stuart Graham
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A drama based on life in Northern Ireland's Maze Prison, with an interpretation of the highly emotive events surrounding the 1981 IRA Hunger Strike led by Bobby Sands.
With an epic eye for detail, the film provides a timely exploration of what happens when body and mind are pushed to the uttermost limit. In the infamous H-Blocks, republican prisoners are on 'Blanket' and 'No-Wash' protests - a living hell for both prisoner and prison officer. A riot erupts but is violently crushed with beatings and body searches. Bobby Sands meets Father Dominic Moran and reveals that he is going to lead a new Hunger Strike to protest for special category status for republican prisoners. The conversation intensifies into a battle of words that illuminates the prisoners' determination to begin another Hunger Strike through the priest's questioning of motives and morality. Bobby's mind is unchanged and the strike will begin.
Screenplay: Steve McQueen, Enda Walsh
Distributor: Pathe
You should see it because: It's a powerful political drama that still has relevance for today.
See it if you liked: In The Name of the Father (1993), Some Mother's Son (1996), The Wind that Shakes the Barley (2006)
