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HUNGER

HUNGER

Steve McQueen
Feature filmGB 200896'German subsFSK 16
Trailer
Friday, 22. Oct 2021, 19:00
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Within 66 days IRA member Bobby Sands starved himself to death in the Northern Irish Maze Prison in 1981. Nine men followed him until the bitter end. On the one hand, Steve McQueen’s cinematic debut is a devastating document of Sands’s bodily deterioration (Michael Fassbender in his first leading role), on the other it’s a powerful exploration of the motives behind this dramatic decision: the central, 20-minute dialogue between Sands and a priest “is probably the greatest one act play ever put to film,” as a British critic wrote. 

Director
Steve McQueen
Screenplay
Enda Walsh, Steve McQueen
Producers
Laura Hastings-Smith , Robin Gutch
Executive Producers
Iain Canning, Peter Carlton, Edmund Coulthard, Linda James, Jan Younghusband
Cinematography
Sean Bobbitt
Editing
Sean Bobbitt
Music
David Holmes
Sound
Paul Davies, Ronan Hill, Mervyn Moore
Production Design
Tom McCullagh
Cast
Michael Fassbender, Liam Cunningham, Liam McMahon, Stuart Graham, Brian Milligan
Domestic Sales
Ascot Elite