Title:
Hunger
ISBN:
9781604652345
Edition:
[Special ed.]
Publication Information:
[Irvington, NY] : Criterion Collection, c2009.
Physical Description:
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.+ 1 booklet.
General Note:
Originally released as a motion picture in 2008.
Special features: Video interviews with McQueen and actor Michael Fassbender; 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 Provos' last card?:" a 1981 episodes of the BBC program Panorama, about the Maze prison hunger strikes and the political and civilian reactions across Northern Ireland; trailer. A booklet featuring an essay by film critic Chris Darke.
Personal Subject:
Summary:
In Northern Ireland's Maze prison in 1981, 27-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. A transcedent depiction of what a human being is willing to endure in order to be heard.
System Details:
DVD, REGION 1, WIDESCREEN (2.35:1) PRESENTATION; DOLBY DIGITAL 5.1 SURROUND, NTSC.
Language Note:
ENGLISH SUBTITLES FOR THE DEAF AND HARD OF HEARING.
