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FIFTY DEAD MEN WALKING
UK & IRELAND PREMIERE
SATURDAY 4 APRIL
7PM
MOVIE HOUSE, DUBLIN ROAD
VIEW TRAILER
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£6.50 / £6
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Based on the real life story of informer Martin McGartland.
Opening on a beautiful stretch of coastland somewhere in Canada, a dishevelled looking 30-year old Martin McGartland (Jim Sturgess) walks towards his car and checks under the wheels for anything suspicious. He gets in and starts the engine. All seems well, until a gunman appears at the window and fires six bullets into him leaving him dying and covered in blood.
Fergus (Ben Kingsley), a British police officer, introduces us to Martin, who was an informant for the British Special Branch during the war in Northern Ireland. The story flashes back 11 years to Belfast 1988.
Martin is a young lad from West Belfast in the late 1980’s, recruited by the British Forces to spy on the IRA. He works his way up the ranks as a volunteer for the IRA whilst feeding information to his British handler, and saving lives in the process; until one day he is exposed, captured and tortured to within an inch of his life. He escaped dramatically by throwing himself from a tower block window and is still in hiding today.
Cast and crew will be in attendance at the screening.
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UK/Canada / 2008 / 117mins / Director: Kari Skogland / Cert:15 / Metrodome
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