ROUTE IRISH
by Ken Loach
synopsis
A tense, triangular love story of two friends and the woman they both love. The men work as private security contractors in Iraq. Together they risk their lives in a city awash with violence and greed. When Frankie is killed on Route Irish (the road linking Baghdad airport with the Green Zone), Fergus, wracked with grief and guilt, rejects the official explanation and determines to investigate the truth of his friend’s death.
| international title: | Route Irish |
| original title: | Route Irish |
| country: | United Kingdom, France |
| sales agent: | Wild Bunch |
| year: | 2010 |
| genre: | fiction |
| directed by: | Ken Loach |
| film run: | 109' |
| release date: | FR 16/03/2011, GB 18/03/2011, IT 22/04/2011, BE 20/04/2011, NL 16/06/2011, RO 05/08/2011 |
| screenplay: | Paul Laverty |
| cast: | Mark Womack, Andrea Lowe, John Bishop |
| cinematography by: | Chris Menges |
| film editing: | Jonathan Morris |
| art director: | Fergus Clegg |
| music: | George Fenton |
| producer: | Rebecca O'Brien |
| production: | Sixteen Films, Why Not Productions |
| distributor: | Diaphana Distribution, Artificial Eye, BIM Distribuzione, Cinéart, Cinéart Netherlands B.V., Independenta Film |
