Based on actual events that took place on 26 April 1974, former debutante turned IRA member Rose Dugdale and three comrades carried out an armed raid on Russborough House, Wicklow, in which nineteen masterpieces were stolen in an effort to support the IRA’s armed struggle. The film plays out over the course of the days following the raid, when Rose is in hiding in a remote cottage.
Acting
Imogen Poots simmers—every glance carries a manifesto.
Cinematography
Gloomy rural Ireland never looked this painterly.
Direction
Molloy and Lawlor turn a heist into a meditation.
Director
Christine Molloy
Imogen Poots
Rose Dugdale
Jack Meade
Eddie Gallagher
Tom Vaughan-Lawlor
Dominic
Lewis Brophy
Martin
Dermot Crowley
Donal
John Kavanagh
Sir Alfred Beit
Andrea Irvine
Lady Beit
Flynn Gray
Patrick
Carrie Crowley
Rose's Mother
Simon Coury
Rose's Father
Vanessa Ifediora
Alice
Patrick Martins
Walter
Martha Breen
Sophie
Conor Lambert
Fisherman
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The real Rose Dugdale was the first woman to fly a helicopter in an IRA operation—though this film sticks to the heist aftermath.
Russborough House was hit FOUR more times after 1974; the film's tension comes from knowing art theft became almost routine there.
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