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In February, 1975, in Northern Ireland, seventeen year-old UVF member Alistair Little kills the catholic Jimmy Griffin in his house in Lurgan in front of his younger brother Joe Griffin. Alistair is arrested and imprisoned for twelve years while Joe is blamed by his mother for not saving his brother. Thirty-three years later, a TV promotes the meeting of Alistair and Joe in a house in River Finn, expecting the truth and the reconciliation of the murderer and the victim who actually seeks five minutes of heaven.
Oliver Hirschbiegel, director of Das Experiment and The Invasion, takes the helm for this film about a killer who dares not seek forgiveness, and another who feels incapable of granting it. The political divide in Ireland runs as far as it does deep. Alistair (Liam Neeson) and Joe (James Nesbitt) each stand on opposing sides of that gaping chasm. Alistair killed Joe's brother, and for than man who's lost family, absolution simply isn't an option.
Het verhaal draait om twee mannen wiens levens verwoest werden door de gewelddadige conflicten in Noord-Ierland van eind de jaren '60 tot het vredesproces in 1998. De ene man, Alistair, is een moordenaar; de andere, Joe, is de broer van de man die hij heeft vermoord. Alistair durft niet om vergiffenis te vragen, terwijl Joe zich onbekwaam voelt om dit te geven.
Five Minutes of Heaven News Articles
FilmNation has acqured Guy Hibbert ’s screenplay Eye in the Sky for Downfall director Oliver Hirschbiegel to helm, a move that reteams the writer and director who collaborated on the 2009 Liam Neeson -starrer Five Minutes of Heaven , which won directing and screenwriting awards at Sundance. FilmNation Evp Production Karen Lunder brought in Eye in the Sky to the company and will produce alongside FilmNation production president Aaron Ryder. Stephen Wright, who works with the BBC where the project was initially developed, will also produce; FilmNation acquired the rights from BBC Films, in cooperation with BBC TV. The company plans to fast-track the movie — an international thriller that follows a group of characters impacted by the decision to drop a drone missile on a house in East Africa — and want to begin prep on it this year.
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