Song for a Raggy Boy (2003)

7.3	Listal rating
7.2	IMDB rating

Directed by

Aisling Walsh

Starring (View all)

William Franklin

Brother John

Brother Mac

Brother Tom

Alan Devlin

Father Damian

Stuart Graham

Brother Whelan

John Travers

Liam Mercier 636

Chris Newman

Patrick Delaney 743

Written by (View all)

Aisling Walsh

writer

Kevin Byron Murphy

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Brilliant movie

5 years, 11 months ago at Jun 29 17:59

skykid

I watched this movie with tears in my eyes. No other movie until know was able to make me feel such pain – almost physical just from watching the story that unfolds on the screen. With risk to repeat myself I must note that this was probably the hardest movie to watch from all I have seen until the moment.

I made few notes when it started – there were about the interesting chara... read more

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Release date : 22 August 2003

Coming Of Age (2), Drama (2), Historical (2), Biography (2), Based On A True Story (2), Homosexuality (1), (1), 2000s (1)

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"In 1939 William Franklin, an anti-Franco veteran of the bloody Spanish Civil War, arrives as first-ever lay teacher in a strict Catholic Reformatory and Industrial School for wayward boys. He soon learns the academic challenge is formidable, many boys being still illiterate, but gradually earns their trust, respect, in time almost devotion, with 'paternal' kindness, making the layman the opposite of the cruel prefect, brother John, who frequently administers painful and humiliating punishments, "

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" It is based on the book of the same name by Patrick Galvin and is based on true events. "

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"Kirjasto-DVD Niitä tunteita herättävämpiä elokuviahan tämä, joka todellakin herätti sadistisen pappisväen raiskatessa, pahoinpidellessä ja murhatessa pikkupoikia jälleen vaihteeksi vahvan halun erota kirkosta. Kunha senkin vain sitten joskus saisi aikaiseksi..."