Route Irish
Synopsis
In September 2004, Fergus (ex-SAS) persuaded Frankie (ex-Para) to join his team in Iraq and earn £12,000 a month tax free as a private security contractor - their last chance to "load up" in this increasingly privatised war.
2006, and Baghdad is the most dangerous city in the world. Route Irish - as nicknamed by occupying forces, is the most dangerous road in this city, running from Baghdad airport to the Green Zone. Together Frankie and Fergus risk their lives in a city steeped in violence, terror, impunity, greed, and awash with cash - US dollars, by the billions. But Route Irish has a fate in store for the friends that neither could have imagined.
Details
- Year
- 2010
- Type of film
- Features
- Running time
- 109 mins
- Format
- 35mm
- Director
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Ken Loach
- Producer
- Pascal Caucheteux, Vincent Maravel
- Editor
- Jonathan Morris
- Screenwriter
- Paul Laverty
- Director of Photography
- Chris Menges
- Production Designer
- Ferus Clegg
- Sound
- Ray Beckett
- Music
- George Fenton
- Principal cast
- Mark Womack, Andrea Lowe, John Bishop
Genre
Categories
Production Status
Production Company
Sixteen Films
2nd Floor187 Wardour Street
London W1F 8ZB
UK
www.sixteenfilms.co.uk
Sales Company
Wild Bunch
99, rue de la Verrerie75004 Paris
France
T+33 1 53 01 50 20
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