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Five Minutes of Heaven is a 2009 film directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel from a script by Guy Hibbert. The film premiered on 19 January 2009 at the 25th Sundance Film Festival where it won the World Cinema Dramatic Directing Award for Hirschbiegel, and the World Cinema Screenwriting Award for Hibbert. As a television film it was broadcast on BBC Two on 5 April 2009, and also had an international feature film release.
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All wars end, yet their scars linger long, haunting both participants and victims, decades after the last shot is fired. This unsettling reality is explored in *Five Minutes of Heaven*, a 2009 drama directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel. The plots unfolds in 1975 in Lurgan, a Northern Ireland town deeply affected by The Troubles. Alistair Little (portrayed by Mark Davidson) is a 17-year-old Protestant boy who, as a member…More
