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'''Bloody Sunday''' is a 2002 television film about the 1972 "Bloody Sunday" shootings in Derry, Northern Ireland. Although produced by Granada Television as a TV film, its cinematic potential was noted and it premiered at the Sundance Film Festival on 16 January, a few days before its screening on the British TV channel ITV on January 20, and then in selected London cinemas from 25 January. The production was written and directed by Paul Greengrass.

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The drama shows the events of the massacre through the eyes of Ivan Cooper, the Protestant Stormont Member of Parliament (for the Social Democratic and Labour Party) who was a central organiser of the Northern Ireland Civil Rights Movement march in Derry on 30 January 1972 that ended with British paratroopers firing on the demonstrators, killing thirteen and wounding another thirteen, one fatally.
Cooper is played by James Nesbitt, himself a Protestant from Northern Ireland, and a number of the military characters were played by ex-members of the British army.
The soundtrack contains only one piece of music, a live version of "Sunday Bloody Sunday" by U2 which plays over the closing credits.

Trivia

★ In the film, Gerry Donaghy was played by Declan Duddy, nephew of Jackie Duddy, one of those killed on Bloody Sunday.

★ Big Brother 2007 (UK) housemate Seány O'Kane was in the film.^[1]

★ The Film was shot in Ballymun in North Dublin

Responses

The film was critically acclaimed.^[2] It won the Audience Award at Sundance and the Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival, in addition to the Hitchcock d'Or best film prize at the Dinard British Film Festival.^[3]
''Bloody Sunday'' appeared a week before another TV film on the same subject, entitled ''Sunday'' (shown by Channel 4). The makers of ''Sunday'' criticized Greengrass's film for concentrating on the leadership of the march and not the perspective of those who joined it.

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2. UKTV Drama Stars uktv.co.uk. Retrieved 2007-07-14.
3. French award for Bloody Sunday BBC News Online, 2002-10-06. Retrieved 2007-07-14.

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