Bloody Sunday (TV film)
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| Bloody Sunday | |
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| Image:Bloody Sunday movie poster.jpg | |
| Directed by | Paul Greengrass |
| Written by | Paul Greengrass |
| Starring | James Nesbitt Allan Gildea Gerard Crossan |
| Release date(s) | Image:Flag of the United States.svg 16 January, 2002 (premiere at Sundance) Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg 20 January, 2002 (TV) Image:Flag of the United Kingdom.svg 25 January, 2002 (theatrical) Image:Flag of Australia.svg 3 October, 2002 Image:Flag of the United States.svg 4 October 2002 (limited) Image:Flag of Canada.svg 25 October, 2002 |
| Running time | 105 min |
| Language | English |
| IMDb profile | |
Bloody Sunday is a 2002 television film about the 1972 "Bloody Sunday" shootings in Derry, Northern Ireland. Although produced by Granada Television as a TV film, its cinematic potential was noted and it premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on 16 January, a few days before its screening on the British TV channel ITV on January 20, and then in selected London cinemas from 25 January. The production was written and directed by Paul Greengrass. The film was shot in Ballymun in North Dublin.
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The drama shows the events of the day through the eyes of Ivan Cooper, the Protestant Stormont Member of Parliament (for the Social Democratic and Labour Party) who was a central organiser of the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association march in Derry on 30 January 1972. The march ended when British paratroopers fired on the demonstrators, killing thirteen instantly and wounding another thirteen, one of whom died 4½ months later from injuries he received on that day.
The soundtrack contains only one piece of music, a live version of "Sunday Bloody Sunday" by U2 which plays over the closing credits.
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Cooper is played by James Nesbitt, himself a Protestant from Northern Ireland, and a number of the military characters were played by ex-members of the British army. Gerry Donaghy was played by Declan Duddy, nephew of Jackie Duddy, one of those killed on Bloody Sunday. Big Brother 2007 (UK) housemate Seány O'Kane was in the film as well.[1]
[edit] Responses
The film was critically acclaimed.[2] It won the Audience Award at Sundance and the Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival (tied with Spirited Away), in addition to the Hitchcock d'Or best film prize at the Dinard British Film Festival.[3]
Bloody Sunday appeared a week before another TV film on the same subject, entitled Sunday (shown by Channel 4). The makers of Sunday criticized Greengrass's film for concentrating on the leadership of the march and not the perspective of those who joined it.[citation needed]
[edit] References
- ^ Seány O'Kane at the Internet Movie Database
- ^ UKTV Drama Stars uktv.co.uk. Retrieved 2007-07-14.
- ^ French award for Bloody Sunday BBC News Online, 2002-10-06. Retrieved 2007-07-14.
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Films directed by Paul Greengrass |
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Resurrected (1989) • The One That Got Away (1996) • The Theory of Flight (1998) • Bloody Sunday (2002) • The Bourne Supremacy (2004) • United 93 (2006) • The Bourne Ultimatum (2007) |
| Preceded by Intimacy | Golden Bear winner 2002 tied with Spirited Away | Succeeded by In This World |
| Image:Drama-film-stub-icon.png | This 2000s drama film-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
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