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Birmingham Showings of Hungerstrike Film

Mary Pearson | 25.11.2008 12:52 | Birmingham

Hunger, the film on the ’81 Hunger Strike, is showing again next week on 28th & 30th Nov and 1st Dec at 6pm. At The Electric Cinema, 47-49 Station Street, Birmingham B5 4DY. Seats £6, £4 Concessions
It will also be showing at Ruskin Hall, Victoria Rd, Aston, Birmingham B6 5HP
Friday 5th December 8.30PM £2

Hunger, the film on the ’81 Hunger Strike, is showing again next week on 28th & 30th Nov and 1st Dec at 6pm. At The Electric Cinema, 47-49 Station Street, Birmingham B5 4DY. Seats £6, £4 Concessions
It will also be showing at Ruskin Hall, Victoria Rd, Aston, Birmingham B6 5HP
Friday 5th December 8.30PM
All are welcome to this viewing of the iconic film. Come and see it with friends at Ruskin, only £2.00 entry.
(age 18 + please)

The Troops Out Movement will be having our bookstall there.
Get your Christmas presents as well as seeing an excellent film.

For Further info on Ruskin Hall Contact Paul on 0121 327 0980 or email  ruskinhall32@aol.com

"The film "Hunger" stars Michael Fassbender as Bobby Sands, the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA) member who led the 1981 Irish hunger strike and participated in the no wash protest (led by Brendan "The Dark" Hughes) in which Republican prisoners tried to win political status. It dramatises events in the Maze prison in the six weeks prior to Sands death.

The film opens with prison guard, Raymond Lohan (Stuart Graham) preparing to leave for work; checking under his car for bombs, putting on his uniform in the locker room and ignoring the camaraderie of his colleagues.

Davey (Brian Milligan), a new IRA prisoner arrives at the gaol, following his refusal to wear the prison uniform, he is labeled "non-cooperative." His new roommate, Gerry (Liam McMahon), has smeared the cell with faeces from floor to ceiling and we witness their resistance to the prison regime."

Sands is the focus of the film. He deeply believes in the cause that he was imprisoned for and in the righteousness of dying for political prisoner status. In one of the film's most notable scenes Sands debates the morality of the hunger strike with a visiting priest (Liam Cunningham).

Mary Pearson
- e-mail: troopsoutmovement@btinternet.com
- Homepage: http://www.troopsoutmovement.com


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