H3 (film)
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| Directed by | Les Blair |
| Written by | Brian Campbell Laurence McKeown |
| Produced by | James Flynn |
| Starring | Brendan Mackey Mark O'Halloran |
| Cinematography | Owen McPolin |
| Edited by | Niamh Fagan |
| Music by | Ray Harmon |
| Distributed by | Metropolitan Films |
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Running time | 88 minutes |
| Country | Ireland |
| Languages | English Irish |
H3 is a film released in 2001 about the 1981 Irish hunger strike at HM Prison Maze in Northern Ireland, the events leading up to it, and subsequent developments in the prisoners' struggle for Prisoner of War status. It was directed by Les Blair and was written by Brian Campbell and Laurence McKeown; McKeown was a former volunteer in the Provisional IRA who participated in the hunger strike.
Cast
- Brendan Mackey as Seamus Scullion
- Dean Lennox Kelly as Ciaran
- Aidan Campbell as Declan
- Tony Devlin as Madra
- Kevin Elliot as Liam
- Mark O'Halloran as Bobby Sands
- Sean McDonagh as Proinsias
- Fergal McElherron as Francis Hughes
- Mark McCrory as Morton
- Dan Gordon as Simpson
- Gerry O'Brien as The Governor
Awards
The film was nominated for four awards and won one of them, the Golden Rosa Camuna award at the Bergamo Film Meeting.
External links
- H3 Official website Archived 2019-06-01 at the Wayback Machine
- H3 at IMDb
- H3 at AllMovie
- H3 at the British Film Catalogue
Categories:
- 2001 films
- Films from Northern Ireland
- Irish drama films
- Irish-language films
- English-language Irish films
- 2001 drama films
- Films about The Troubles (Northern Ireland)
- Films about the Irish Republican Army
- 2000s prison drama films
- Political drama films
- Films set in Northern Ireland
- Films based on actual events
- 1981 Irish hunger strike
- 2000s English-language films