Hunger (2008 film)


Hunger is a 2008 BritishIrish historical drama film directed by Steve McQueen and starring Michael Fassbender, Liam Cunningham, and Liam McMahon, about the 1981 Irish hunger strike. It was written by Enda Walsh and McQueen.

Prison officer Raymond Lohan prepares to leave work he cleans his bloodied knuckles, checks his car for bombs, puts his uniform on, and ignores his comrades.Davey Gillen, a new IRA prisoner, arrives he is categorised as a nonconforming prisoner for his refusal to wear the prison uniform. He is sent to his cell naked with only a blanket. His cellmate, Gerry, has smeared the walls with faeces from floor to ceiling as part of the no wash protest. The two men get to know each other and we see them living within the cell. Gerrys girlfriend sneaks a radio in by wrapping it and keeping it in her vagina. ........

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