In 1847, when Ireland is in the grip of the Great Famine that has ravaged the country for two long years, Feeney, a hardened Irish Ranger who has been fighting for the British Army abroad, returns home to reunite with his estranged family, only to discover the cruelest reality, a black land where death reigns.
Type:
MOVIE
Country:
IE
Genres:
Drama
Release:
September 2018
Production:
Fastnet Films, Primeridian Entertainment, Samsa Film, uMedia, FĂs Ăireann/Screen Ireland, Wild Atlantic Pictures
Cast:
Hugo Weaving, James Frecheville, Stephen Rea, Freddie Fox, Barry Keoghan, Moe Dunford, Sarah Greene, Jim Broadbent, Dermot Crowley, RuairĂ Heading, Aidan McArdle, Fiach Kunz, Julian Nest, Brandon Maher, Ciaran Grace, Kieran Boland, Joe Lydon, Ryan McAllister, Diarmuid de Faoite, Geraldine McAlinden, Ronan O'Connor, John Cronin, Peadar Cox, Laurence O'Fuarain, Finbar Lynch, Keith McErlean, Philip Dutton, Andrew Bennett
Tags:
desertion, famine, revenge, murder, tenant, severed head, poverty, genocide, ireland, firing squad, bad landlord, landlord tenant relationship, starvation, 19th century, manhunt, army veteran, british occupation, connemara, irish great potato famine (1845-52), 1840s, irish, british crimes, crime by the english