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Michael Collins is a British film of genre Drama directed by Neil Jordan released in USA on 25 october 1996 with Liam Neeson
Michael Collins (1996)
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Add to a movie listMichael Collins is a 1996 historical biopic written and directed by Neil Jordan and starring Liam Neeson as Michael Collins, the Irish patriot and revolutionary who died in the Irish Civil War. It won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival.
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The film opens in 1922, as Joe O'Reilly (Ian Hart) attempts to console Kitty Kiernan (Julia Roberts), who is mourning the death of Michael Collins.Actors
Liam Neeson
(Michael Collins)
Aidan Quinn
(Harry Roland)
Stephen Rea
(Ned Broy)
Alan Rickman
(Eamon de Valera)
Julia Roberts
(Kitty Kiernan)
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