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As the Beast Sleeps (2002)
Directed by Harry Bradbeer
“When the political leadership of the Ulster Defence Association bans paramilitary activity, the teams groomed for fighting face a drastic change in lifestyle.”
Drama, TV Movie · 1h 15m
Kyle is loyal to his wife, his best mate and his boss in the Ulster Defence Union – and they love him as a husband, a brother and a son – but, with changing times and the emerging peace process, Kyle finds himself lost in the shadows of transition, uncertainty, and betrayal. In a world turned upside down, peace and brutality walk side-by-side, while love and loyalty are sacrificed to the new order. "As the Beast Sleeps" is set in Belfast's Protestant Rathcoole housing estate and explores with an up-to-the-minute urgency, the fragmentation within an extended family of loyalists in the context of the current cease-fire.
Cast
Stuart Graham
Patrick O'Kane
Alan McKee
Lalor Roddy
Gerard Jordan
Michael Liebman
Packy Lee
Frank McCusker
Crew
- Director
- Harry Bradbeer
- Writer
- Gary Mitchell
- Director of Photography
- Mark Garrett
- Editor
- Paul Endacott
- Producer
- Anthony Rowe, Robert Cooper
Details
- Release date
- 2002-02-03
- Runtime
- 1h 15m
- Genres
- Drama, TV Movie
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United Kingdom
- Production
- BBC Northern Ireland