Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 108 min
- Age rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- Ireland
- Violence
- Strong
- Frights
- Mild
Why tonight?
- It goes hard on violence — not a wind-down.
The story
Irish Commandant Pat Quinlan leads a stand off with troops against French and Belgian Mercenaries in the Congo during the early 1960s.
- based on novel or book
- bravery
- congo
- conflict
- united nations
- katanga conflict
- irish
- irish army
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Jamie Dornan
Pat Quinlan
Guillaume Canet
Rene Faulques
Mark Strong
Conor Cruise O'Brien
Jason O'Mara
Sgt. Jack Prendergast
- Michael McElhatton — General McEntee
- Mikael Persbrandt — Dag Hammarskjold
- Danny Sapani — Moise Tshombe
- Fionn O'Shea — William Reidy
- Fiona Glascott — Carmel Quinlan
- Emmanuelle Seigner — Madame LaFontagne
- Conor Quinlan — P.J. (Patrick Joyce)
- Sam Keeley — Billy (Sniper) Ready
- Conor MacNeill — Radio Operator
- Luc Van Gunderbeeck — Charles de Gaulle
- Jordan Mifsud — John Donnelly
- Directed
- Richie Smyth
- Written
- Kevin Brodbin
Production
- Rating
- 7.1 / 10 · 958 ratings
- Studio
- Parallel Films, Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
