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Borstal Boy 2001

Directed by Peter Sheridan

  • Drama
  • 91 min
  • NR

As a prisoner of war it is my duty to escape.

Brendan Behan, a sixteen year-old IRA foot soldier, is going on a bombing mission from Ireland to Liverpool during the second world war. His mission is thwarted when he is apprehended, charged and imprisoned in Borstal, a reform institution for young offenders in East Anglia, England.

Dramahomophobiabullyingliverpool, englandcoming of agecross dressingaccidental deathira (irish republican army)based on memoir or autobiographyteenage boyreform schoolnorfolk1940s
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