Hunger poster
Director Steve McQueen
Writer Steve McQueen, Enda Walsh

Hunger

Tagline: An odyssey, in which the smallest gestures become epic and when the body is the last resource for protest.

Release Date: 2008-05-15

Duration: 96 minutes

Synopsis

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.

Casting

  • Michael Fassbender
    Bobby Sands
  • Liam Cunningham
    Priest
  • Des McAleer
    Mr Sands
  • Karen Hassan
    Gerry's Girlfriend
  • Stuart Graham
    Ray Lohan
  • Liam McMahon
    Gerry Campbell
  • B.J. Hogg
    Loyalist Orderly
  • Lalor Roddy
    William
  • Brian Milligan
    Davey Gillen
  • Frank McCusker
    The Governor