As the Beast Sleeps
“When the political leadership of the Ulster Defence Association bans paramilitary activity, the teams groomed for fighting face a drastic change in lifestyle.”
Overview
Kyle is loyal to his wife, his best mate and his boss in the Ulster Defence Union – and they love him as a husband, a brother and a son – but, with changing times and the emerging peace process, Kyle finds himself lost in the shadows of transition, uncertainty, and betrayal. In a world turned upside down, peace and brutality walk side-by-side, while love and loyalty are sacrificed to the new order. "As the Beast Sleeps" is set in Belfast's Protestant Rathcoole housing estate and explores with an up-to-the-minute urgency, the fragmentation within an extended family of loyalists in the context of the current cease-fire.
Top-billed cast
- AAlan McKee
- DDavid Hayman
- DDaniel McGrady
- SStuart Graham
- GGerard Jordan
- MMoya O'Hara
- CColum Convey
- TTom Magill
- TTom Collins
- LLalor Roddy
Crew
- Director
- Harry Bradbeer
- Writers
- Gary Mitchell, Susie McClelland
- Producers
- Robert Cooper, Anthony Rowe
- Production
- BBC Northern Ireland
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Who directed As the Beast Sleeps?
As the Beast Sleeps was directed by Harry Bradbeer.
When was As the Beast Sleeps released?
As the Beast Sleeps was released in 2002.
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