Bloody Sunday (film)

Bloody Sunday is a 2002 British-Irish that written and directed by Paul Greengrass. The documentary film reconstructs the events surrounding Bloody Sundayin 1972, when the British army during a demonstration in Londonderry, Northern Ireland Thirteen civilians dead shot.

Bloody Sunday won more than fifteen international film awards including a BAFTA Award for best photography, the silver bear of the Berlin Film festival 2002, British Independent Film Awards for Best Director and best actor (James Nesbitt), a National Board of Review Award for freedom of expression and the public's prize at the 2002Sundance Film Festival . ==Story[ Edit] == The story picks up from the point of view of four people: through the eyes of Ivan Cooper (James Nesbitt), leader of the civil rights movement; through the eyes of Gerald Donaghy (Declan Duddy), a young man of seventeen who was shot dead on Bloody Sunday, through the eyes of the General who leads the operation and a British paratrooper who actually does not agree with what the British do. ==Background[ Edit] == It was the intention of Director Greengrass to come as close as possible to the events of Bloody Sunday to stay. Therefore, people with different backgrounds In the film are involved. Most of the people in the film are not actors, but people from Derry, the city where Bloody Sunday took place at the time. So is the actor who plays Donaghy family of one of the murdered Irish. Most soldiers who in the film plays are real soldiers of the British army who have served in the streets of Derry.