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HUNGER (2008)



Criterion Collection # 504

DVD RELEASE DATE: FEBRUARY 16, 2010


Verenigd Koninkrijk
Drama
90 minuten

geregisseerd door Steve McQueen
met Michael Fassbender, Helena Bereen en Liam Cunningham

Hunger gaat over de laatste zes weken uit het leven van de Ierse hongerstaker Bobby Sands. Sands zat in 1981 in de beruchte H-blokken van de Maze-gevangenis in Noord-Ierland. De gevangenen kwamen in opstand tegen de barre omstandigheden in de gevangenis.

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Director: Steve McQueen


Description
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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. 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.


Format: NTSC

DVD Size: 6.97 GB -- Exact Untouched Copy

Runtime (main feature): 96 minutes

Type: Color

Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1

Sound (main feature): English

Subtitles: optional English


DIRECTOR-APPROVED SPECIAL EDITION

# New, restored high-definition digital transfer, approved by director Steve McQueen.
# Video interviews with McQueen and actor Michael Fassbender.
# A 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 Provo's 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.
# Theatrical trailer.


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