Movie Details
Original Language:English
Executive Producers:Max Palevsky,
Donald S. Rugoff
Production Companies:Maxpal
Cast & Crew
D
Donald S. Rugoff
Executive Producer
A Sense of Loss
Audience Score
StarringBridget AndrewsBridget BondNoel Browne
DirectorMarcel Ophüls
2 hr 15 minDocumentary
Plot
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)
