Shooting the Darkness
7.4
“A great photograph transforms the event. It's not just a record of it. It's something else”
The testimony of the men who unwittingly became war photographers on the streets of their own towns in Northern Ireland, when violence erupted around them. Instead of photographing weddings and celebrities, as they expected, they produced the images that crudely show the suffering of ordinary people between 1968 and 1998, the worst years of the conflict.
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Cast
29 people
Alan Lewis
Self - Press Photographer
Hugh Russell
Self - Press Photographer
Tom Burke
Known for
Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
Strike
Gerry Adams
Gerry Adams
Susanne Biermann
Suzanne Biermann
Paul Faith
Self - Press Photographer
Jessie Fisk
Chris Woodcock
Crispin Rodwell
Self - Press Photographer
Claire Isambert
Patrick Bolger
Tom Burke Director · Gerry Horan Composer
Budget $185K · First release January 30, 2019 · Produced in France, Germany, Ireland
Box office
Budget
$185,000
Production
RTÉ
Production
Broadstone Films
Production
ARTE GEIE
Production
Arte
Production
France · Germany · Ireland
Produced in
Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English
Release dates
Ireland · January 30, 2019
TV · RTÉ One
No release date listed for United States.
France
March 7, 2019 · Digital · arte
March 14, 2019 · TV · arte
Germany
March 7, 2019 · Digital · arte
March 14, 2019 · TV · arte
Italy
March 7, 2019 · Digital · arte
Poland
March 7, 2019 · Digital · arte
Spain
March 7, 2019 · Digital · arte
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