Black '47

Director

Lance Daly

Producers

Macdara Kelleher, Tim O'Hair, Jonathan Loughran, Arcadiy Golubovich

Run time

96 min

year

2018

country

Ireland

It’s 1847 and Ireland is in the grip of the Great Famine that has ravaged the country for two long years. Feeney, a hardened Irish Ranger who has been fighting for the British Army abroad, abandons his post to return home and reunite with his estranged family. He’s seen more than his share of horrors but nothing prepares him for the famine’s hopeless destruction of his homeland. He discovers his mother starved to death and his brother hanged by the brutal hand of the English.

With little else to live for, he sets on a destructive path to avenge his family, systematically working his way up the political and social hierarchy of 19th century Ireland. Hannah, an ageing British soldier and famed tracker of deserters, is sent to stop Feeney before he can further stoke the fires of revolution.