Admission: € 2.50 / € 1.50
Start 8.00 pm
Location: Edith-Ruß-Haus, Katharinenstraße 23, seminar room
Hunger – UK 2008
Running time: approx. 91 minutes
FSK: 16
“Putting my life on the line is not just the only thing I can do – it’s the right thing to do.” Bobby Sands, convicted IRA terrorist, imprisoned in the notorious Maze Prison.
For some he is a hero and martyr, for others a terrorist or a common criminal. Bobby Sands died of starvation in Maze Prison in Northern Ireland in 1981 at the age of 27 – of his own free will. His death was intended to force the British government to recognize IRA prisoners as political prisoners.
One after the other, nine other prisoners followed him to starvation. Sands died on May 5, 1981, and five months later the British government allowed the prisoners to wear civilian clothes. Most of the other demands were subsequently met, although the IRA prisoners were never officially recognized as political prisoners. Hunger is an uncompromising, deeply disturbing film about a 1981 IRA hunger strike and is the debut feature from Turner Prize-winning British artist Steve McQueen. (Ascot Elite)
“This movie is different. Captivating and of shattering poetry. A sensation.” Märkische Allgemeine Zeitung
“The salvation of cinema from the spirit of art: Hunger by Steve McQueen.” FAZ