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The Great Hunger: The Story of the Irish Famine
A 2020 Documentary film written and directed by Ruán Magan, narrated by Liam Neeson. Audio in English with Italian subtitles.
2020 marked the 175th anniversary of the beginning of the Great Irish Famine (1845-1852) which resulted in the deaths of over one million people and the scattering of one million and quarter across the globe. It was a large-scale humanitarian disaster with tragic consequences, especially for those classes at the bottom of the social ladder: the cottiers and landless laborers whose families were almost entirely dependent on the potato for their survival.
Based on the Atlas of the Great Irish Famine (published in 2012) and on recent research, The Great Hunger traces the tragic history of the Irish famine of the mid-nineteenth century also in the light of a real class struggle. The British authorities, the landed aristocracy and the Irish Catholic bourgeoisie: none of them did as much as they could to avoid the suffering of 3 million people at the bottom of the social ladder.
Un documentario del 2020, Create One/Wonderland, Tyrone Productions in associazione con RTÉ, ARTÉ, UCC. Voce narrante di Liam Neeson. Regia: Ruán Magan; sceneggiatura: Ruán Magan; fotografia: Brian O’Leary; musica: Natasa Paulberg; produttore: Ruán Magan.
Basandosi sull’Atlante della grande Carestia irlandese (“Atlas of the Great Irish Famine”, pubblicato nel 2012) e su recenti ricerche, The Hunger ripercorre la tragica storia della carestia irlandese di metà Ottocento anche alla luce di una vera e propria lotta di classe. Le autorità britanniche, l’aristocrazia terriera e la borghesia cattolica irlandese: nessuno di loro fece quanto avrebbe potuto per evitare le sofferenze di 3 milioni di persone che erano in fondo alla scala sociale.
Il regista Ruán Magan è un pluripremiato autore televisivo e teatrale. Tra i suoi lavori più recenti, i documentari 1916: The Irish Rebellion, presentato all’IRISH FILM FESTA nel 2016, e The Irish Revolution, con la voce narrante di Cillian Murphy. Suo anche il docudrama in quattro parti The Men Who Built America andato in onda su History Channel nel 2012.
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