Borstal Boy (2002)

Directors

Peter Sheridan

Cast

Danny Malcom Dyer, Lee Ingleby, Michael York, Shawn Hatosy

The story

In 1941, 16-year-old IRA volunteer Brendan Behan is going on a bombing mission from Republic of Ireland to Liverpool during the Second World War. His mission is thwarted when he is apprehended, charged and imprisoned in a borstal, a reform institution for young offenders in East Anglia, England. At borstal, Brendan is forced to live face-to-face with those he regarded as his enemies, a confrontation that reveals a deep inner conflict in the young Brendan and forces a self-examination that is both traumatic and revealing.

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