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Hunger
Hunger
drama, biography
2008
Ireland, United Kingdom
Steve McCuin
96 min.
Michael Fassbender, Liam Cunningham, Stewart Graham
The film tells about the struggle of prisoners from the Irish Republican Army for recognizing the status of political. At first they try to achieve this, refusing to wash, wear prison clothes and in every possible way diluting dirt in their cells. However, this tactic did not bring fruits: the prisoners were forcibly cut and washed, while beating half to death. Finally, one of them - Bobby Sands - decides to start a deadly hunger strike