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Rocky Road To Dublin (12)

Synopsis

A massively controversial film from Irish-born journalist Peter Lennon and legandary French Nouvelle Vague cinematographer Raoul Coutard, set against a backdrop of Dublin in the 1960s.

Decades before Michael Moore, Irish-born journalist Peter Lennon and legandary French Nouvelle Vague Director of Photography Raoul Coutard managed to get a society to condemn itself on camera. In Rocky Road to Dublin (1968), Ireland's patriotic sportsmen, priests, censors and 'brain-washed' children unwittingly convey the truth about a repressed, suppressed and

massively censored Republic. Lennon and Coutard expose the hypocrisy of church, politics, and state through a series of seemingly 'innocent' interviews. Unsurprisingly, after one screening in a Dublin cinema in 1968, it was banned for more than three decades - never released in Ireland nor even shown on Irish television.

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The Making of Rocky Road to Dublin

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