Arracht

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Movie
Original title Arracht
Country of production Ireland
original language Irish
Publishing year 2019
length 86 minutes
Rod
Director Tomás Ó Súilleabháin
script Tomás Ó Súilleabháin
production Cúán Mac Conghail
music Kila
camera Kate McCullough
cut Mary Crumlish
occupation

Arracht ( Irish for "monster", international title also monster ) is a film drama by Tomás Ó Súilleabháin (also known as Tom Sullivan ) that premiered in November 2019 as part of the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival and on April 3, 2020 in the British and Irish cinemas should come. The film takes place at the beginning of the Great Famine in Ireland in the mid- 19th century .

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After crop failures across Europe, there was also a great famine in Ireland in 1845 . Colmán Sharkey, a fisherman, father and husband, is influential and respected in the village. At the request of a priest, he has just taken in a stranger. Patsy served as a soldier in the Napoleonic Wars. Colmán is a good-hearted man and his family, his brother, his wife Maggie and their young son, show him their hospitality.

Patsy came to them just before the potato stew began, which is gradually leading to the death and displacement of millions of people. As the harvest rots in the fields, Colmán, his brother and Patsy travel to the home of the English landowner to request a payment deferral for the tenants. Otherwise, Colmán believes, the community will probably not survive these difficult times. However, his request falls on deaf ears.

Historical

The years between 1845 and 1849 went down in Irish history as " The Great Famine ".

Between 1845 and 1849, in the wake of several, by the then new blight triggered, failed crops to famine in Ireland. The consequences of the bad harvests were exacerbated by the policies of the Whig government under Lord John Russell , which refused to deviate from its laissez-faire ideology. The food available on the market was purchased by other population groups, even if they were less needy, or transported past the hungry to the export ports. Buyers in other parts of the UK were more solvent than the distressed Irish population.

The potato pest that hit Ireland from late summer 1845 had fatal consequences for the country's small tenant farmers. Since 1541 Ireland was under English rule and most of the land they cultivated belonged to large English landowners . The Irish farmers worked the land as tenants, growing potatoes and grain on it, and keeping small amounts of cattle. The grain and animal products were used to pay rent to the large landowners and were brought to England. Potatoes, on the other hand, were easy, cheap and quick to grow and were the staple staple of the Irish population. Farmers usually saved part of the potato harvest as seed for the next year, but the low yield left farmers with no choice during this period also to use this part as food. Epidemics such as plague and typhus joined hunger. The years between 1845 and 1849, in which one million people died, about twelve percent of the Irish population, went down in Irish history as " The Great Famine ".

production

Directed by Tomás Ó Súilleabháin , who also wrote the script.

The main role of Colmán Sharkey was cast with Dónall Ó Héalaí . For Dara Devaney , who plays his guest Patsy, it is the second leading role in an Irish production within a few years after the role of Micí Finky Ó Foghlú in Finky . Elaine O'Dwyer plays Coleman's wife Maggie. Michael McElhatton plays the English landowner, Saise Ní Chuinn plays the young girl named Kitty.

The shooting took place in the western Irish city of Galway , where the main actor Ó Héalaí was born.

The film premiered on November 29, 2019 as part of the Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival . In late February and early March 2020, it was presented at both the Glasgow Film Festival and the Dublin International Film Festival. It is slated to hit UK and Irish cinemas on April 3, 2020.

reception

Reviews

Screen International's Fionnuala Halligan says it is a pleasure to see an Irish-language film attempt to blend the country's tragic history with more modern elements of genre conventions. It highlights the acting performance of Dónall Ó Héalaí in the lead role and the camera work by Kate McCullough .

Amber Wilkinson of Eye for Film explains that cinematographer McCullough emphasizes the size of the sea, which plays an important role in film when she draws it flat, gray and relentless by holding her camera deep in the water. The sea becomes a constant for Colmán, since it offers both an escape and a source of food. Although Arracht is not overtly political, the film leaves no doubt who the bad guys are, for example when the English lieutenant refers to previous crop failures and "perfectly acceptable" death rates.

Awards

Dublin International Film Festival 2020

Glasgow Film Festival 2020

  • Awarded the Audience Award (Tomás Ó Súilleabháin)

Irish Academy Awards 2020

  • Nomination for Best Film 2020
  • Nomination for Best Director (Tomás Ó Súilleabháin)
  • Nomination for Best Screenplay (Tomás Ó Súilleabháin)
  • Nomination for Best Actor (Dónall Ó Héalaí)
  • Nomination for Best Supporting Actor ( Dara Devaney )
  • Nomination for Best Cinematography ( Kate McCullough )
  • Nomination for Best Costumes (Clodagh Deegan)
  • Nomination for the best film music (KÍLA)
  • Nomination for Best Equipment (Padraig O'Neil)
  • Nomination for Best Sound (Brendan Rehill and Alan Scully)
  • Nomination for Best Makeup & Hair (Niamh O'Loan)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Fionnuala Halligan: 'Arracht': Tallinn Review. In: screendaily.com, December 3, 2019.
  2. ↑ Gunther Hirschfelder: Facets of a global history of nutrition: Eating culture as a result of historical processes. In: bpb.de, January 5, 2018.
  3. ↑ https://www.bpb.de/internationales/weltweit/welternaehrung/192023/zugang-zu-nahrung
  4. ↑ A mushroom and the English starved the Irish. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung, April 7, 2001.
  5. ↑ Wolfgang Neumann-Bechstein: History of Ireland: The great famine. In: planet-wissen.de. Retrieved March 22, 2020.
  6. ^ Niall Murphy: Irish drama Arracht wins awards in Dublin and Glasgow. In: scannain.com, March 9, 2020.
  7. ↑ Festival Tour: Arracht. In: diff.ie. Retrieved March 22, 2020.
  8. ↑ Arracht. In: filmdates.co.uk. Retrieved March 22, 2020.
  9. ↑ Amber Wilkinson: Arracht. In: eyeforfilm.co.uk, December 16, 2019.
  10. ↑ Nathan Griffin: Arracht wins Best Irish Film at Dublin Film Festival; Audience Award at its UK Premiere at Glasgow Film Festival. In: iftn.ie, March 10, 2020.
  11. ↑ Michael Rosser: 'Arracht' wins Glasgow audience award; festival draws record admissions. In: screendaily.com, March 9, 2020.
  12. ↑ Niall Murphy: IFTA Film & Drama Awards Nominations Announced for 19/20. In: scannain.com, July 14, 2020.