Fifty Dead Men Walking (2008)

Directed by

Kari Skogland

Genre

drama film, crime thriller film

Country

United Kingdom, United States, Canada

Runtime

1h 57m

Rated

R

Rating

6.3 of 10 from 175 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

During the Troubles in Northern Ireland, a young man becomes a British agent working undercover inside the IRA. He must maintain his false identity while gathering intelligence and trying to stay alive as suspicion grows around him.

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What happens

Fifty Dead Men Walking is a 2008 English-language crime thriller film written and directed by Kari Skogland. It is a loose adaptation of Martin McGartland's 1997 autobiography of the same name. It premiered in September 2008, and stars Jim Sturgess as McGartland, a British agent who went undercover into the Provisional Irish Republican Army (IRA), and Ben Kingsley as Fergus, his British handler. The film is set from 1988 until 1991, the time in which McGartland acted as an undercover agent within the IRA during the Troubles. In 1991, his cover was blown and he was kidnapped by the IRA, although he later escaped from an interrogation and execution, and went into hiding. At the time of the release of the film, McGartland was still in hiding. The film takes its name from McGartland's claim within his book to have saved the lives of fifty people (police officers, soldiers, and prison guards) during his time as an agent. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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