HUNGER (MOVIE) - DVD-2008-CRITERION COLLECTION

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• Release Year: 2008
• Genre: Drama
• Plot: With Hunger, British filmmaker and artist Steve McQueen has turned one of history's most controversial acts of political defiance into a jarring, unforgettable cinematic experience. 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, rather than as ordinary criminals. McQueen dramatizes prison existence and Sands's final days in a way that is purely experiential, even abstract, a succession of images full of both beauty and horror. Featuring an intense performance by Michael Fassbender, Hunger is an unflinching, transcendent depiction of what a human being is willing to endure to be heard.
• Cast: Stuart Graham; Laine Megaw; Brian Milligan; Liam McMahon; Karen Hassan; Michael Fassbender; Frank McCusker; Lalor Roddy; Helen Madden; Des McAleer; Geoff Gatt; Rory Mullen; Ben Peel; Helena Bereen; Paddy Jenkins; Liam Cunningham; Billy Clarke; Ciaran Flynn; B.J. Hogg; Denis Halligan; Larry Cowan; Thomas James Scott; Tom Dart; Steve McQueen; Enda Walsh
• Director: Steve McQueen
• Runtime: 1:36
• Company: Film4, Blast! Films Production
• Media Format: Movie