6.5
Black '47
2018
“As a country starves, survival is everything.”
Arracht (2021)
October 15, 20211h 30mGA
6.8
8 votes
Overview
Colmán Sharkey - a fisherman, a father, a husband - takes in a stranger at the behest of a local priest. Patsy, a former soldier arrives just ahead of ‘the blight,’ a crop disease that caused the Great Plague, killing and displacing millions of Irishmen.
Director
Tomás Ó SúilleabháinWriter
Where to Watch
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Status
Released
Original Language
Irish
Budget
$1
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N/A
Production Companies
Macalla TeorantaCine4
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User Reviews
CinemaSerf
7.0"Colmán Sharkey" (a strong performance from Dónall Ó Héalai) lives peaceably with his wife and young son on the West Coast of Ireland. They live a pretty subsistence existence, supplementing their basic potato farming with some fishing and a thriving little poteen business. Their livelihoods become doubly blighted, however, upon the arrival of "Patsy" (Dara Devaney) - a naval deserter; and with the bug that ruins their crops. It's at this point they get a visit from the agents for the English landlord to collect the rents, so "Colmán" decides they ought to go visit the man - with whom he is on…
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