A War of Children (1972)
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Directors
George Schaefer
Cast
Vivien Merchant
The story
During The Troubles in Northern Ireland, two middle-class families in Belfast, one Catholic and one Protestant, turn from friends to bitter enemies. Their children face the painful consequences.
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