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The Outsider is a film of genre Drama released in USA on 2 june 1980 with Craig Wasson

The Outsider (1980)

The Outsider
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Released in USA 2 june 1980
Length 2h8
Genres Drama,    Historical
Rating68% 3.4251153.4251153.4251153.4251153.425115

The Outsider is a 1980 film thriller set largely in Belfast during The Troubles; it was the first film directed by Italian-American Tony Luraschi. The film is based on the book The Heritage of Michael Flaherty by Colin Leinster, and details the fictional experience of an idealistic Irish-American who travels to Ireland and joins the Irish Republican Army in the 1970s.

Luraschi, who had worked as an assistant director with Stanley Kramer and Roger Vadim, had never been to Ireland until 1976.
The company was unable to film in Northern Ireland, so instead made arrangement with a local residents' association to film the exterior scenes in the Dublin suburb of Ringsend.

Synopsis

Un vétéran du Vietnam en colère quitte Detroit pour Belfast et rejoint l'IRA contre les Anglais, comme l'avait fait son grand-père.

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