Country: Luxemburg
Year: 1998
Duration: 96'
and works in H-Block, where the prisoners of Republican faith “I want to show what it was like to see, hear, smell and touch in the
are carrying out a series of protests to re-obtain their status as political
prisoners. They refuse to wear the prison uniforms and refuse to wash,
thus living in squalor and filth. The protest degenerates into a revolt
which is violently repressed. Raymond is assassinated by the IRA and
Bobby Sands, the leader of the Republican prisoners, decides to begin
a long hunger strike.
H-Block in 1981. What I want to convey is something you cannot
find in books or archives: the ordinary and extraordinary, of life in this
prison. Yet the film is also an abstraction of what it is to die for a
cause. Hunger for me has contemporary resonance. The body as site
of political warfare is becoming a more familiar phenomenon. It is the
final act of desperation; your own body is your last resource for protest.”
Biography
film director
Steve McQueen
Steve McQueen (London, UK, 1969) attended Chelsea School of Art and Goldsmiths’ College, after which he spent a year at the Tisch School of the Arts in New York. As a visual artist, his work has been acquired by major institutions including the Guggenheim, Tate and the Centre Pompidou. He won the Turner Prize in 1999. His art work Queen and Country, commissioned by the Imperial War Museum and the Manchester International Festival, commemorates the British service personnel who have been kille in the war in Iraq. Hunger marks his directorial debut.
FILMOGRAFIA
Hunger (2008)
Cast
& Credits
regia/director Steve McQueen
soggetto, sceneggiatura/ story, screenplay Enda Walsh, Steve McQueen
fotografia/cinematography Sean Bobbitt
montaggio/film editing Joe Walker
scenografia/production design Tom McCullagh
costumi/costume design Anushia Nieradzik
musica/music David Holmes, Leo Abrahams
suono/sound Paul Davies
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Michael Fassbender (Bobby Sands), Liam Cunningham (padre/Father Dominic
Moran), Stuart Graham (Raymond Lohan), Brian Milligan (Davey Gillen), Liam McMahon (Gerry Campbell), Laine Megaw(la moglie di Raymond/Raymond’s Wife), Karen Hassan (la ragazza di Gerry/Gerry’s Girlfriend), Frank McCusker (il governatore/Governor)
produttori/producers Laura Hastings-Smith, Robin Gutch
produzione/production Blast! Films, Film 4
vendita all’estero/world sales Icon Entertainment International
soggetto, sceneggiatura/ story, screenplay Enda Walsh, Steve McQueen
fotografia/cinematography Sean Bobbitt
montaggio/film editing Joe Walker
scenografia/production design Tom McCullagh
costumi/costume design Anushia Nieradzik
musica/music David Holmes, Leo Abrahams
suono/sound Paul Davies
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Michael Fassbender (Bobby Sands), Liam Cunningham (padre/Father Dominic
Moran), Stuart Graham (Raymond Lohan), Brian Milligan (Davey Gillen), Liam McMahon (Gerry Campbell), Laine Megaw(la moglie di Raymond/Raymond’s Wife), Karen Hassan (la ragazza di Gerry/Gerry’s Girlfriend), Frank McCusker (il governatore/Governor)
produttori/producers Laura Hastings-Smith, Robin Gutch
produzione/production Blast! Films, Film 4
vendita all’estero/world sales Icon Entertainment International
TFF
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