The Hunger: The Story of the Irish Famine
MovieTitle | The Hunger: The Story of the Irish Famine |
User score | 7.7 |
Release date | Mar 6, 2020 |
Genre | Documentary, History, TV Movie |
Director | Ruán Magan |
Production country | France, Ireland |
Production companies | RTÉ, Create One, ARTE, Tyrone Productions, UCC |
Run time | 91 min. |
Ireland, 1845. When a deadly fungus destroys potato crops throughout northern Europe, the most impoverished Irish population, whose main source of food is precisely the potato, suffers a cruel famine that will cause more than a million deaths and, in the following ten years, the mass exodus of more than two million people.