Release Date

03 Feb, 2002

Runtime

01:15: (HH:MM)

Synopsis

When the political leadership of the Ulster Defence Association bans paramilitary activity, the teams groomed for fighting face a drastic change in lifestyle.

Kyle is loyal to his wife, his best mate and his boss in the Ulster Defence Union – and they love him as a husband, a brother and a son – but, with changing times and the emerging peace process, Kyle finds himself lost in the shadows of transition, uncertainty, and betrayal. In a world turned upside down, peace and brutality walk side-by-side, while love and loyalty are sacrificed to the new order. "As the Beast Sleeps" is set in Belfast's Protestant Rathcoole housing estate and explores with an up-to-the-minute urgency, the fragmentation within an extended family of loyalists in the context of the current cease-fire.

Original Title

As the Beast Sleeps

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Actors

Stuart Graham

Patrick O'Kane

Laine Megaw

Daniel McGrady

Conor Grimes

Alan McKee

Lalor Roddy

Gerard Jordan

Michael Liebman

Packy Lee

Frank McCusker

Moya O'Hara

Sean Kearns

Dick Holland

Colum Convey

David Hayman

Tom Magill

Tom Collins

Crew

Hazel Webb-Crozier

Mervyn Moore

Anthony Rowe

Robert Cooper

Gillian Devenney

Susie McClelland

Barry Keil

Gary Mitchell

Harry Bradbeer

Mark Garrett

Daniel Crowley

Paul Endacott

Cathy Mooney

Alasdair McBroom