Release Date

01 Jan, 1973

Runtime

02:15: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

Shot over six weeks in December 1971, and January 1972, the film consisted of interviews with Protestants, Catholics, politicians, and some soldiers, combined with TV news clips of bombings and violence. The deaths of four individuals formed the central focus of the film, which Ophüls described as ‘an old, middle-aged, humanistic, social-democratic attempt to give people an idea that life after all is not that cheap’. The BBC refused to transmit the completed film on the grounds that it was ‘too pro-Irish’ (Sunday Times, 5 Nov. 1972). (via http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/othelem/media/docs/freespeech.htm)

Original Title

A Sense of Loss

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Actors

Bridget Andrews

Bridget Bond

Noel Browne

Bernadette Devlin

Crew

Marcel Ophüls

Simon Edelstein

Max Palevsky

Donald S. Rugoff

Marion Kraft

Marcel Ophüls

Ana Carrigan