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Bloody Sunday (film)

Bloody Sunday
Bloody Sunday movie poster.jpg
Film poster
Directed by Paul Greengrass
Produced by Mark Redhead co-producer Don Mullan
Written by Paul Greengrass
Starring James Nesbitt
Allan Gildea
Gerard Crossan
Music by Dominic Muldowney
Cinematography Ivan Strasburg
Edited by Clare Douglas
Production
company
Bórd Scannán na hÉireann
Granada Television
Hell's Kitchen Films
Irish Film Board (funding)
Portman Entertainment Group
Distributed by Paramount Classics
Release date
  • 16 January 2002 (2002-01-16) (Sundance)
  • 25 January 2002 (2002-01-25) (UK)
Running time
105 minutes
Country Ireland
Language English
Budget £2,000,000
Box office £482,117

Bloody Sunday is a 2002 film about the 1972 "Bloody Sunday" shootings in Derry, Northern Ireland. Although produced by Granada Television as a TV film, it premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on 16 January, a few days before its screening on ITV on 20 January, and then in selected London cinemas from 25 January. The production was written and directed by Paul Greengrass. Though set in Derry, the film was actually shot in Ballymun in North Dublin. However, some location scenes were shot in Derry, in Guildhall Square and in Creggan on the actual route of the march in 1972.

The movie was inspired by Don Mullan's politically influential book Eyewitness Bloody Sunday (Wolfhound Press, 1997). The drama shows the events of the day through the eyes of Ivan Cooper, an SDLP Member of the Parliament of Northern Ireland who was a central organiser of the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association march in Derry on 30 January 1972. The march ended when British Army paratroopers fired on the demonstrators, killing thirteen and wounding another who died four-and-a-half months later.

The soundtrack contains only one piece of music, a live version of "Sunday Bloody Sunday" by U2 which plays over the closing credits.

Cooper is played by James Nesbitt, himself a Protestant from Northern Ireland. In recognition of the role his book played in achieving the new Bloody Sunday Inquiry, his book's role as inspiration for the movie, and the fact that he was a schoolboy witness to the tragedy, Don Mullan was asked by director Paul Greengrass to appear in the film as a Bogside Priest. A number of the military characters were played by ex-members of the British Army, including Simon Mann. Gerry Donaghy was played by Declan Duddy, nephew of Jackie Duddy, one of those killed on Bloody Sunday. Big Brother 2007 (UK) housemate Seány O'Kane was also in the film.


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