Steve McQueen: "Hunger"

Admission: 2,50 / 1,50 €
Start 20.00
Place: 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.

To some he is a hero and martyr, to others a terrorist or common criminal. Bobby Sands starved to death 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 by one, nine more fellow 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 remaining demands were subsequently met as well, although the IRA prisoners were never officially recognized as political prisoners. An uncompromising, deeply disturbing film about a 1981 IRA hunger strike, Hunger is the debut feature of Turner Prize-winning English artist Steve McQueen. (Ascot Elite)

"This film is different. Captivating and of harrowing poetry. A sensation." Märkische Allgemeine Zeitung

"The salvation of cinema from the spirit of art: Hunger by Steve McQueen." FAZ