Five Minutes of Heaven, Irish movie about the troubles.

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Five Minutes of Heaven is a Irish made movie about the troubles.
James Nesbitt and Liam Neeson star in award winning director Oliver Hirschbiegel’s Five Minutes of Heaven, a unique one off drama that explores aspects of the north of Ireland’s troubled past and the challenges the future holds in coming to terms with it.
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Five Minutes of Heaven recently won two awards at Sundance - one of America’s biggest film festivals including the World Cinema Directing Award and World Cinema Screenwriting Award.

The story begins in 1975 when 17-year-old Alistair Little, a member of the UVF murdered a 19-year-old Catholic, Jim Griffin, in Lurgan. He was arrested two weeks later, along with three others involved in the shooting, and convicted. Jim’s murder was witnessed by his 11-year-old brother, Joe Griffin.
Five Minutes of Heaven, directed by Hirschbiegel (Downfall) and written by Guy Hibbert (Omagh) is a fiction inspired by real people. Working closely with both men, screenwriter Guy Hibbert creates a unique and compelling film that moves from a powerful re-enactment of these tragic events to a fictional interpretation of what might happen should these two men ever come face to face. The film explores the impact of the legacy of violence on both men.

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Five Minutes of Heaven, Irish movie about the troubles.