Plot
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.
Cast
as Bobby Sands
as Ray Lohan
as Priest
as Raymond's Mother
as Raymond's Wife
as Davey Gillen
as Gerry Campbell
as Gerry's Girlfriend
as The Governor
as William
Gallery
Reviews
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 …
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.