Hunger, IFC Films ; Icon ; Film 4 ; Channel 4 ; Film 4 presents in association with Northern Ireland Screen, the Broadcasting Commission of Ireland and the Wales Creative IP Fund a Blast! Films production ; directed by Steve McQueen ; produced by Laura Hastings-Smith and Robin Gutch ; written by Enda Walsh and Steve McQueen ; executive producers, Jan Younghusband, Peter Carlton, Linda James, Edmund Coulthard, Iain Canning ; director of photography, Sean Bobbitt
Type
Label
Hunger, IFC Films ; Icon ; Film 4 ; Channel 4 ; Film 4 presents in association with Northern Ireland Screen, the Broadcasting Commission of Ireland and the Wales Creative IP Fund a Blast! Films production ; directed by Steve McQueen ; produced by Laura Hastings-Smith and Robin Gutch ; written by Enda Walsh and Steve McQueen ; executive producers, Jan Younghusband, Peter Carlton, Linda James, Edmund Coulthard, Iain Canning ; director of photography, Sean Bobbitt
Language
eng
Characteristic
videorecording
Main title
Hunger
Oclc number
503473475
Responsibility statement
IFC Films ; Icon ; Film 4 ; Channel 4 ; Film 4 presents in association with Northern Ireland Screen, the Broadcasting Commission of Ireland and the Wales Creative IP Fund a Blast! Films production ; directed by Steve McQueen ; produced by Laura Hastings-Smith and Robin Gutch ; written by Enda Walsh and Steve McQueen ; executive producers, Jan Younghusband, Peter Carlton, Linda James, Edmund Coulthard, Iain Canning ; director of photography, Sean Bobbitt
Runtime
96
Series statement
The Criterion collection, 504
Summary
In Northern Ireland's Maze prison in 1981, 27-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. A transcendent depiction of what a human being is willing to endure in order to be heard
Technique
live action
Classification
Contributor
- Nieradzik, Anushia
- Fassbender, Michael, 1977-
- Coulthard, Edmund
- Graham, Stuart, 1967-
- Icon Productions
- Walker, Joe, 1963 October 2-
- Abrahams, Leo
- Milligan, Brian
- McCullagh, Tom
- FilmFour (Firm)
- Blast! Films
- Younghusband, Jan
- McQueen, Steve, 1969-
- Gutch, Robin
- Bobbitt, Sean
- IFC Films
- Holmes, David, 1969-
- Megaw, Laine
- Wales Creative IP Fund (Firm)
- Cunningham, Liam
- Northern Ireland Screen (Firm)
- Walsh, Enda
- Canning, Iain
- James, Linda M
- Hastings-Smith, Laura
- Broadcasting Commission of Ireland
- Criterion Collection (Firm)
- Channel Four (Great Britain)
- Carlton, Peter
Subject
- Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1979-1997 -- Drama
- Great Britain -- History -- Elizabeth II, 1952- -- Drama
- Sands, Bobby, -1981 -- Drama
- Irish Hunger Strike, Northern Ireland, 1981 -- Drama
- Maze Prison (Lisburn, Northern Ireland) -- Drama
- Prisoners + Death -- Drama
- Irish Republican Army -- Drama
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Outgoing Resources
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- Contributor29
- Nieradzik, Anushia
- Fassbender, Michael, 1977-
- Coulthard, Edmund
- Graham, Stuart, 1967-
- Icon Productions
- Walker, Joe, 1963 October 2-
- Abrahams, Leo
- Milligan, Brian
- McCullagh, Tom
- FilmFour (Firm)
- Blast! Films
- Younghusband, Jan
- McQueen, Steve, 1969-
- Gutch, Robin
- Bobbitt, Sean
- IFC Films
- Holmes, David, 1969-
- Megaw, Laine
- Wales Creative IP Fund (Firm)
- Cunningham, Liam
- Northern Ireland Screen (Firm)
- Walsh, Enda
- Canning, Iain
- James, Linda M
- Hastings-Smith, Laura
- Broadcasting Commission of Ireland
- Criterion Collection (Firm)
- Channel Four (Great Britain)
- Carlton, Peter
- Subject7
- Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1979-1997 -- Drama
- Great Britain -- History -- Elizabeth II, 1952- -- Drama
- Sands, Bobby, -1981 -- Drama
- Irish Hunger Strike, Northern Ireland, 1981 -- Drama
- Maze Prison (Lisburn, Northern Ireland) -- Drama
- Prisoners + Death -- Drama
- Irish Republican Army -- Drama
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