Bloody Sunday (TV film)

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Bloody Sunday

Directed by	Paul Greengrass
Written by	Paul Greengrass
Starring	James Nesbitt Allan Gildea Gerard Crossan
Release date(s)	16 January 2002 (premiere at Sundance) 20 January 2002 (TV) 25 January 2002 (theatrical) 3 October 2002 4 October 2002 (limited) 25 October 2002
Running time	105 min
Language	English
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Bloody Sunday is 2002 television film about the 1972 "Bloody Sunday" massacre in Derry, Northern Ireland. Although produced by Granada Television as a TV film, its cinematic potential was noted and it premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on 16 January, a few days before its screening on the British TV channel ITV on January 20,^{[citation needed]} and then in selected London cinemas from 25 January. The production was written and directed by Paul Greengrass.

1 Content
2 Triva
3 Responses
4 External links

[edit] Content

The drama shows the events of the massacre through the eyes of Ivan Cooper, the Protestant Stormont Member of Parliament (for the Social Democratic and Labour Party) who was a central organiser of the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Movement march in Derry on 30 January 1972 that ended with British paratroopers firing on the demonstrators, killing thirteen and wounding another thirteen, one fatally.

Cooper is played by James Nesbitt, himself a Protestant from Northern Ireland, and a number of the military characters were played by ex-members of the British army.

The soundtrack contains only one piece of music, "Sunday Bloody Sunday" by U2.

[edit] Triva

In the film, Gerry Donaghy was played by Declan Duddy, nephew of Jackie Duddy, one of those killed on Bloody Sunday.

[edit] Responses

The film was critically acclaimed.^{[citation needed]} It won the Audience Award at Sundance and the Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival.

Bloody Sunday appeared a week before another TV film on the same subject, entitled Sunday (shown by Channel 4). The makers of Sunday criticized Greengrass's film for concentrating on the leadership of the march and not the perspective of those who joined it.^{[citation needed]}