Movie: 81

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Robert Hickey
Robert Hickey

Tommy Friel

Lalor Roddy
Lalor Roddy

Bernard Friel

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    Presented as the work of a French TV crew sent to cover the Bobby Sands 1981 hunger strike, '81 is, in fact, a fictional look at two Belfast families: one catholic and nationalist, one protestant and unionist.

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    1996-10-01

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    7

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