Written by Steve McQueen II, Enda WalshDirected by Steve McQueen IIRunning Time: 92 minutes (approx)Production Year: 2008Rating: 15 CertificateProduction Country: UK/IrelandFilmed in ColourThe UK network premiere of artist Steve McQueen's Film4-funded award-winning drama, which focuses on the 1981 hunger strikes by Republican prisoners in Northern Ireland. Michael Fassbender plays Bobby Sands, one of a group of prisoners who first "took to the blanket" with a "dirty protest" in pursuit of their claims for recognition as political prisoners. Sands then became the first one of the group to embark on a hunger strike that was to end in his death. McQueen's film captures the reek of the urine-flooded, excrement-smeared cells, the intransigence of both sides and, at centre of the film, uses a bravura extended dialogue between Sands and Father Moran to ask if the strike and the resultant deaths will have any effect at all. Network Premier. When is The Hunger next on TV?
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The Hunger is a Film programme that first aired in 2008 and has been rated 15. The Hunger is a 4 star programme.
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