Northern Irish Republican Army leader Bobby Sands (Michael Fassbender) was arrested for leading a march against the authorities. In Metz prison, he still did not give up the struggle. The prison was filled with six-square-metre closed cells and housed NIRA prisoners, who were naked and refused to wear prison uniforms to defy Margaret Thatcher's decree that stripped prisoners of their rights. They pass the message by covering the ditches under the Transfiguration doors with filthy food and excrement.
The prisoners were kept abreast of news of the IRA's struggle with the British government through a smuggled radio. Finally, when Sands decides to go on a hunger strike, he has a wonderful debate with Father Dominic Moran (Liam Cunningham), but it doesn't help.
… Won the Golden Camera Award at the 61st Cannes Film Festival.
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