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Bloody Sunday is 2002 television film about the 1972 "Bloody Sunday" massacre 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,[citation needed] and then in selected London cinemas from 25 January. The production was written and directed by Paul Greengrass.
ContentThe 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.
The soundtrack contains only one piece of music, "Sunday Bloody Sunday" by U2. TrivaIn the film, Gerry Donaghy was played by Declan Duddy, nephew of Jackie Duddy, one of those killed on Bloody Sunday. ResponsesThe film was critically acclaimed.[citation needed] It won the Audience Award at Sundance and the Golden Bear at the Berlin International Film Festival.
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