Based on the true story of the 1981 hunger strike in a British prison, in which IRA prisoner Bobby Sands led a protest against the treatment of IRA prisoners as criminals rather than as prisoners of war. The film focuses on the mothers of two of the strikers, and their struggle to save the lives of their sons.
Release Date: 25 December 1996Runtime: 112 min
Stars:
- Aidan Gillen
- Ciarán Fitzgerald
- Ciarán Hinds
- Dan Gordon
- David O'Hara
- Fionnula Flanagan
- Geraldine O'Rawe
- Gerard McSorley
- Grainne Delany
- Helen Mirren
- John Lynch
- Robert Lang
- Stephen Hogan
- Tim Woodward
- Tom Hollander
Director: Terry George
