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Year:
2003
Country:
United Kingdom, Denmark, Ireland, Spain
Release date:
19 January 2003
19 January 2003
Genre:
Drama
Director:
Aisling Walsh
Cast:
Aidan Quinn, Iain Glen, Marc Warren, Dudley Sutton, Alan Devlin, Stuart Graham, John Travers, Chris Newman, Andrew Simpson, Mark Butler
Screenwriter:
Aisling Walsh, Kevin Byron Murphy, Patrick Galvin
Producer:
Tristan Lynch, John McDonnell, Kevin Byron Murphy, Dominic Wright, Gillian Berrie, Peter Garde, Andres Vicente Gomez, Michael Lunderskov
Operator:
Peter Robertson
Composer:
Richard Blackford
Duration: 100 min. / 01:40
Description: Song For a Raggy Boy is a 2003 film directed by Aisling Walsh. It is based on the book of the same name by Patrick Galvin and is based on true events. The film is set in 1939, on the brink of World War II, in the St. Judes Reformatory School, a ruthless Irish school for boys. Gray, gloomy and ruled by the sadistic Brother John (Iain Glen), the school prefers punishment to rehabilitation. But new lay teacher William Franklin (Aidan Quinn), fresh from the frontline of the Spanish Civil War, fights to liberate the boys from their oppressors. Two young boys have key roles in the film. Patrick Delaney 743 (Chris Newman) arrives at the school aged 13 and a half. He, like all the boys, is allocated a number which the priests use. Franklin, however, always uses the boys' names. Delaney is an attractive boy and he receives the unwelcome attentions of a pedophile priest, Brother Mac (Marc Warren), who molests and rapes the boy in the school toilets. The boy tells of his ordeal to a visiting...
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