A Sense of Loss

(1973)

★ 9 IMDb · 1 votes

Genres: Documentary

Year: 1973

Runtime: 135 мин

Country: Ireland, Switzerland

Director: Marcel Ophüls

Cast: Bridget Andrews, Bridget Bond, Noel Browne, Bernadette Devlin

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)