Black '47

When a revenge-driven Irish Ranger (James Frecheville) deserts his post in the British Army in Afghanistan to return home to Connemare during the devastating potato famine in 1847 and learns that his mother starved to death and his brother was hanged, and then his brother's widow (Sarah Greene), nephew, and niece die in this dark, well-acted, violent, 100-minute thriller with striking cinematography and landscapes and based on the short Irish film An Ranger, he dreams of going to America after hunting down a judge (Dermot Crowley), eviction oversee (Aidan McArdle), a landlord (Jim Broadbent), and a Catholic priest (Diarmuid de Faoite) he deems responsible for his family's death while being doggedly pursued by a tenacious British captain (Freddie Fox), an Army vet turned bounty hunter (Hugo Weaving), an idealistic English private (Barry Keoghan), a violent sergeant (Moe Dunford), and a local translator (Stephen Rea).
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