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A Sense of Loss

9.0(1)19732h 15m1

Shot over six weeks in December 1971, and January 1972, the film consisted of interviews with Protestants, Catholics, politicians, and some soldiers, combined with TV news clips of bombings and violence. The deaths of four individuals formed the central focus of the film, which Ophüls described as ‘an old, middle-aged, humanistic, social-democratic attempt to give people an idea that life after all is not that cheap’. The BBC refused to transmit the completed film on the grounds that it was ‘too pro-Irish’ (Sunday Times, 5 Nov. 1972). (via http://cain.ulst.ac.uk/othelem/media/docs/freespeech.htm)

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Language
English
  • politics
  • religion
  • the struggles

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Ireland, Switzerland, United States of America

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  • United StatesUS

    • PremiereNew York Film Festival2 Oct 1972
  • FinlandFI

    • Theatrical18 Dec 1973
  • FranceFR

    • Theatrical1 Jan 1973

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A Sense of Loss was released on 1 January 1973.

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