In Rocky Road To Dublin filmed in the late sixties Ireland's Patriotic sportsmen priests censors and brain-washed children unwittingly convey the truth about a repressed suppressed censored Republic. Unsurprisingly after one screening in Dublin in 1968 it was suffocated for more than three decades; never released to Irish cinemas and never shown on Irish TV. Now restored the film is complemented by a 'Making Of' that revisits the themes and contexts of the ori
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD and will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Controversial Irish documentary about the state of the Irish republic in the late 1960s Director Peter Lennon interviewed ordinary people patriotic sportsmen and politicians as well as priests and young children to glean a picture of his country and let his interviewees unwittingly reveal the depths of their small-minded prejudice The documentary painted a portrait of a country that was censorious and repressed and caused great controversy after one screening in Dublin It was immediately pulled and has never been seen since in Irish cinemas or on Irish television
Controversial Irish documentary about the state of the Irish republic in the late 1960s. Director Peter Lennon interviewed ordinary people, patriotic sportsmen and politicians, as well as priests and young children, to glean a picture of his country, and let his interviewees unwittingly reveal the depths of their small-minded prejudice. The documentary painted a portrait of a country that was censorious and repressed, and caused great controversy after one screening in Dublin. It was immediately pulled and has never been seen since in Irish cinemas or on Irish television.
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