The Hunger: The Story of the Irish Famine

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TitleThe Hunger: The Story of the Irish Famine
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7.7

Release dateMar 6, 2020
GenreDocumentary, History, TV Movie
DirectorRuán Magan
Production countryFrance, Ireland
Production companiesRTÉ, Create One, ARTE, Tyrone Productions, UCC
Run time91 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.

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