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Film / 2018
Citizen Lane
Directed by
Thaddeus O'Sullivan
Citizen Lane is an innovative mix of documentary and drama that delivers a vivid and compelling portrait of Hugh Lane, one of the most fascinating and yet enigmatic figures in modern Irish history. A man of multiple contradictions, by turns infuriatingly parsimonious or extraordinarily generous, a professed nationalist and a knight of the realm; a monumental snob and a fearless campaigner for access to the arts.
The story
Citizen Lane is an innovative mix of documentary and drama that delivers a vivid and compelling portrait of Hugh Lane, one of the most fascinating and yet enigmatic figures in modern Irish history. A man of multiple contradictions, by turns infuriatingly parsimonious or extraordinarily generous, a professed nationalist and a knight of the realm; a monumental snob and a fearless campaigner for access to the arts.
Cast
Tom Vaughan-LawlorHugh Lane
Michael GambonLord Ardilaun
Marty ReaWilliam Orpen
Derbhle CrottyLady Augusta Gregory
Bosco HoganReverend James Lane
Lesley ConroyMs Harrison
Gemma-Leah DevereuxRuth Shine
Barry McGovernWilliam Martin Murphy
Ned DennehyGeorge Moore
Art CampionW.B. Yeats
Frank PrendergastJohn Millington Synge
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