Hunger
Title:
Hunger
Author:
Hastings-Smith, Laura.
Edition:
Blu-ray edition.
Publication Information:
[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, [2009]
Physical Description:
1 Blu-ray disc (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Summary:
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. The film focuses on Sands's final days. An unflinching, transcendent depiction of what a human being is willing to endure to be heard.
General Note:
Originally released as a motion picture in 2008.
Special features: Video interviews with Steve McQueen and actor Michael Fassbender; short documentary on the making of Hunger: including interviews with McQueen, Fassbender, actors Liam Cunningham, Stuart Graham, and Brian Milligan, writer Enda Walsh, and producer Robin Gutch; "The Provos' last card?:" a 1981 episode of the BBC program Panorama, about the Maze prison hunger strikes and the political and civilian reactions across Northern Ireland; trailer.
Language:
English
Personal Subject:
Corporate Subject:
Added Title:
Provos' last card?
ISBN:
9781604652352
UPC:
715515052917
Format :
Blu-Ray
