The true story of Irishman Brian Keenan and Englishman John McCarthy's extraordinary relationship as hostages of militias in Lebanon during the 1979-91 Civil War.
Acting
Ian Hart and Linus Roache turn a bare room into an entire world.
Direction
Furse refuses easy catharsis — every small victory costs something.
Director
John Furse
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Real Keenan later wrote 'An Evil Cradling' — the film's title comes from his poetry about blindness as flight from reality.
Hart and Roache spent days in sensory deprivation prep; Hart reportedly hallucinated on set.
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