Hunger

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

7.2

|2008|96 min

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.

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