Five Minutes of Heaven (2009)

Directed by

Oliver Hirschbiegel

Genre

drama film

Country

United Kingdom, Ireland

Runtime

1h 29m

Rated

R

Rating

6.1 of 10 from 226 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

The film shows a real murder from 1975 in Northern Ireland, then moves to a later meeting between the killer and the victim's brother. They try to talk about what happened.

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What happens

Five Minutes of Heaven is a 2009 film directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel from a script by Guy Hibbert. The film premiered on 19 January 2009 at the 25th Sundance Film Festival where it won the World Cinema Dramatic Directing Award for Hirschbiegel, and the World Cinema Screenwriting Award for Hibbert. As a television film it was broadcast on BBC Two on 5 April 2009, and also had an international feature film release. The first part reconstructs the historical killing of 19-year-old Jim Griffin by 17-year-old Alistair Little in 1975, and the second part depicts a fictional meeting between Little and Griffin's brother Joe 33 years later. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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