15° FESTIVAL INTERNAZIONALE CINEMA GIOVANI
Feature Film Competition 1997
I Went Down
by Paddy Breathnach
Country: Ireland, UK, USA
Year: 1997
Duration: 107'
Git gets out of jail and quickly finds himself in trouble because he is forced by his boss, Tom French, to accept an illegal job. He is assigned an accomplice, Bunny, a violent and dangerous man. Things really go bad when the two of them together have to cross bogs and moors with Frank Grogan, the most big-mouthed hostage in the world. After some problems, Bunny and Git become good friends and face a moral dilemma together that has no easy solution.
Biography
film director
Paddy Breathnach
Paddy Breathnach works as a documentary director al RTE, the Irish national television network. He directed two short fiction films and his first feature film, Ailsa, won the Euskal Media New Directors Prize at the 1994 San Sebástian Festival.
FILMOGRAFIA
A Stone of the Heart (cm, 1991), The Long Way Home (cm, 1994), Ailsa (1994), I Went Down (1997).
Cast
& Credits
Director: Paddy Breathnach.
Screenplay: Conor McPherson.
Director of photography: Clan de Buitléar.
Art director: Tom McCullagh.
Editor: Emer Reynolds.
Music: Dario Marianelli.
Sound: Simon J. Willis.
Cast and characters: Brendan Gleeson (Bunny Kelly), Peter McDonald (Git Hynes), Peter Caffrey (Frank Grogan), Tony Doyle (Tom French).
Producer: Robert Walpole.
Production company: Treasure Films Ireland Ltd., Shamrock Chambers, 1-2 Eustace Street, Dublin 2, Ireland, tel. +353-1-6709609, fax +353-1~ 6709612.
Foreign sales agent: The Sales Co., 62 Shaftesbury Avenue, London WIV 7DE, UK, tel. +44-171-4349061, fax +44171-4943293.
Italian distribution: Mikado Film srl., via Vittor Pisani 12, 20124 Milano, ltaly, tel. +39-02-67070665/67070685, fax +39-02-66711488.
Screenplay: Conor McPherson.
Director of photography: Clan de Buitléar.
Art director: Tom McCullagh.
Editor: Emer Reynolds.
Music: Dario Marianelli.
Sound: Simon J. Willis.
Cast and characters: Brendan Gleeson (Bunny Kelly), Peter McDonald (Git Hynes), Peter Caffrey (Frank Grogan), Tony Doyle (Tom French).
Producer: Robert Walpole.
Production company: Treasure Films Ireland Ltd., Shamrock Chambers, 1-2 Eustace Street, Dublin 2, Ireland, tel. +353-1-6709609, fax +353-1~ 6709612.
Foreign sales agent: The Sales Co., 62 Shaftesbury Avenue, London WIV 7DE, UK, tel. +44-171-4349061, fax +44171-4943293.
Italian distribution: Mikado Film srl., via Vittor Pisani 12, 20124 Milano, ltaly, tel. +39-02-67070665/67070685, fax +39-02-66711488.
