Set in 2016 prior to the centennial of the Easter Rising at Northern Ireland's only integrated teacher training college. A struggle develops between the principal and the security director who values security more than education.
Acting
Young Branagh's barely-there but promising debut.
Writing
Chillingly prescient security-paranoia script.
Director
Ben Bolt
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This was Kenneth Branagh's first professional screen credit, filmed while he was still at RADA. He appears in approximately three scenes with no dialogue.
Writer Graham Reid was already famous for 'Billy' plays; this imagined 2016 Northern Ireland as a surveillance state five years before the actual 2016 centenary brought real political tensions.
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