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New Release - September 2007

Poitín - 30th Anniversary Edition 1977 - 2007

The new digitally remastered version with

a dedicated music score by Riverdance composer, Bill Whelan.

 

Plus
EXTRA FEATURE: The ELEVENTH HOUR Interview
Bob Quinn talks to Pádraic Breathnach about the making of Poitín, Budawanny, Caoineadh Áirt Uí Laoire, et al. Illustrated with stills and clips from the films.

  €29.50 (incl. shipping)

FREE: a DVD of the original version of Poitín will be supplied free to the first fifty customers.

 

 

 

Poitín is the classic 1977 feature film in the Irish language (subtitled) which features Cyril Cusack, Niall Tóibín and Donal McCann and which was filmed entirely on location in a Conamara long vanished.


Based on a story by Colm Bairéad it tells of an elderly poitín maker and his daughter who exact an appropriate revenge on the two agents who cheat and then terrorise them. Some of the local actors, Mairéad Ní Conghaile, Tom Sailí Ó Flatharta, Mick Lally, MacDara Ó Fatharta and Johnny Cóil Mhaidhc surprised even the above stars with the authentic resonance they added to the film. These went on to become stars of Irish radio & television.
The film negative went missing for years until cinematographer Seamus Deasy (whose first feature it was) uncovered it in the vaults of Technicolor. Bord Scannán na h-Éireann instantly grasped the importance of this film and made possible the delicate remastering and redubbing processes which have been superbly accomplished by Framestore in London and Windmill Lane in Dublin.

 

CINEGAEL/Bob Quinn Films are available on DVD from this site!

(Including The Atlantean Quartet, Poitin, Budawanny, ConTempo Goes West, Cloch,etc.)

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'The Atlantean Quartet', 'Poitín' and 'Budawanny' are available on DVD from this site.
 
 
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