Hunger (2008)

NR05/15/2008Drama, History1h 36m
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An odyssey, in which the smallest gestures become epic and when the body is the last resource for protest.

Overview

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.

Top Billed Cast

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    Michael Fassbender

    Bobby Sands

  2. Cast 1

    Stuart Graham

    Ray Lohan

  3. Cast 1

    Liam Cunningham

    Priest

  4. Cast 1

    Helena Bereen

    Raymond's Mother

  5. Laine Megaw

    Raymond's Wife

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    Brian Milligan

    Davey Gillen

  7. Cast 1

    Liam McMahon

    Gerry Campbell

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    Karen Hassan

    Gerry's Girlfriend

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    Frank McCusker

    The Governor

Well nobody could ever accuse Michael Fassbender is giving half measures here in this graphic and brutal biopic of Irish Republican prisoner Bobby Sands. Shortly after Margaret Thatcher was elected in Britain, he was incarcerated in Belfast’s Maze Prison where his stance against not just the UK but the predominately Unionist views of the population of Northern Ireland at the time were seeing him and his fellow inmates living in what can only be described as squalid (though much of that was self-afflicted) conditions that would not have looked out of place in some South American dictatorship. H...