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Hunger is a 2008 historical drama film about the 1981 Irish hunger strike. It was directed by Steve McQueen (in his feature directorial debut) and starred Michael Fassbender , Liam Cunningham , and Liam McMahon .
Oct 31, 2008 · Hunger: Directed by Steve McQueen. With Stuart Graham, Laine Megaw, Brian Milligan, Liam McMahon. Irish republican Bobby Sands leads the inmates of a Northern Irish prison in a hunger strike.
In the first portion, set almost entirely within the walls of a prison, IRA members convicted of acts against the state are brutalized by baton-wielding guards. With virtually no dialogue to speak...
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Currently you are able to watch "Hunger" streaming on AMC+ Amazon Channel, IndieFlix. 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.
Apr 15, 2009 · It concerns the fierce battle between the Irish Republican Army and the British state, which in 1981 led to a hunger strike in which 10 IRA prisoners died. The first of them was Bobby Sands, whose agonizing death is seen with an implacable level gaze in the closing act of the film.
In Northern Ireland’s Maze prison in 1981, twenty-seven-year-old Irish Republican Army member Bobby Sands went on a hunger strike to protest the British government’s refusal to recognize him and his fellow IRA inmates as political prisoners.
Featuring an intense performance by Michael Fassbender, Hunger, about IRA member Bobby Sands's 1981 prison hunger strike, is an unflinching, transcendent depiction of what a human being is...
