Hunger
An odyssey, in which the smallest gestures become epic and when the body is the last resource for protest.
Overview
The story of Bobby Sands, the IRA member who led the 1981 hunger strike during The Troubles in which Irish Republican prisoners tried to win political status.
- Revenue
- $2,724,474
- Production
- Film4 Productions, Northern Ireland Screen, Broadcasting Commission of Ireland, Wales Creative IP Fund, Blast! Films
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Cast
Michael Fassbender
Bobby Sands
Stuart Graham
Ray Lohan
Liam Cunningham
Priest
Helena Bereen
Raymond's Mother
Brian Milligan
Davey Gillen
Liam McMahon
Gerry Campbell
Karen Hassan
Gerry's Girlfriend
Frank McCusker
The Governor
Lalor Roddy
William
Des McAleer
Mr Sands
Paddy Jenkins
Hitman
Rory Mullen
Priest
Ben Peel
Riot Prison Officer Stephen Graves
B.J. Hogg
Loyalist Orderly
Ciaran Flynn
12 Year Old Bobby
Crew
- Director
- Steve McQueen
- Writers
- Enda Walsh,Steve McQueen
- Producers
- Robin Gutch,Laura Hastings-Smith
- Cinematography
- Sean Bobbitt
- Composer
- David Holmes,Leo Abrahams
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CinemaSerf
May 31, 2025
Well nobody could ever accuse Michael Fassbender is giving half measures here in this graphic and brutal biopic of Irish Republican prisoner Bobby Sands. Shortly after Margaret Thatcher was elected in Britain, he was incarcerated in Belfast’s Maze Prison where his stance against not just the UK but the predominately Unionist views of the population of Northern Ireland at the time were seeing him and his fellow inmates living in what can only be described as squalid (though much of that was self-…
badelf
November 22, 2025
Ouch. Margaret Thatcher was a huge bitch. If people can watch this movie and not realize that oversized, corrupt governments are pure evil, then something is deeply wrong. Fassbinder is absolutely phenomenal in this.