Shot over six weeks in December 1971, and January 1972, the film consisted of interviews with Protestants, Catholics, politicians, and some soldiers, combined with TV news clips of bombings and violence. The deaths of four individuals formed the central focus of the film, which Ophüls described as ‘an old, middle-aged, humanistic, social-democratic attempt to give people an idea that life after all is not that cheap’. The BBC refused to transmit the completed film on the grounds that it was ‘too pro-Irish’ (Sunday Times, 5 Nov. 1972). (via http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/othelem/media/docs/freespeech.htm)
Genre: Documentary
Stars: Bridget Andrews, Bridget Bond, Noel Browne, Bernadette Devlin
Crew: Marcel Ophüls (Director), Simon Edelstein (Director of Photography), Max Palevsky (Executive Producer), Donald S. Rugoff (Executive Producer), Marion Kraft (Editor), Marcel Ophüls (Producer)
Country: Ireland, Switzerland, United States of America
Language: English, Français
Studio: Maxpal
Runtime: 135 minutes
Quality: HD
Released: Jan 01, 1973
IMDb: 10
