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- Heiress. Rebel. Revolutionary.

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.

Release Date : 2024-03-01

Language :English

Adult : false

Status : Released

Production Company : Desperate Optimists ProductionsSamson Films

Production Country : IrelandUnited Kingdom

Alternative Titles : Rose's War

Cast

Character Name : Rose Dugdale

Original Name : Imogen Poots

Gender : Female

Character Name : Eddie Gallagher

Original Name : Jack Meade

Gender : Male

Character Name : Dominic

Original Name : Tom Vaughan-Lawlor

Gender : Male

Character Name : Martin

Original Name : Lewis Brophy

Gender : Male

Character Name : Donal

Original Name : Dermot Crowley

Gender : Male

Character Name : Sir Alfred Beit

Original Name : John Kavanagh

Gender : Male

Character Name : Lady Beit

Original Name : Andrea Irvine

Gender : Female

Character Name : Patrick

Original Name : Flynn Gray

Gender : Male

Character Name : Rose's Mother

Original Name : Carrie Crowley

Gender : Female

Character Name : Rose's Father

Original Name : Simon Coury

Gender : Male

Character Name : Alice

Original Name : Vanessa Ifediora

Gender : Female

Character Name : Walter

Original Name : Patrick Martins

Gender : Male

Character Name : Sophie

Original Name : Martha Breen

Gender : Female

Character Name : Lizzie

Original Name : Molly Rose Lawlor

Gender : Female

Character Name : Fisherman

Original Name : Conor Lambert

Gender : Male

Character Name : Micheál

Original Name : Michael-David McKernan

Gender : Male

Character Name : Child Rose

Original Name : Jude McClean

Gender : Female

Character Name : Butler

Original Name : Paul Ward

Gender : Male

Character Name : Shopkeeper

Original Name : Fionnuala Murphy

Gender : Female

Character Name : News Reporter

Original Name : Alan Howley

Gender : Male

Character Name : Policeman

Original Name : Ciaran McMahon

Gender : Male

Character Name : BBC News Reader

Original Name : Simon Kunz

Gender : Male

Character Name : Albert Price

Original Name : Ciaran McKenna

Gender : Male

Character Name : Boy's Father

Original Name : James Edlin

Gender : Male

Character Name : Comrade

Original Name : Ella Cannon

Gender : Female

Character Name : Garda / Special Branch

Original Name : Derek Carroll

Gender : Male

Character Name : Anne

Original Name : Bernadette Carty

Gender : Female

Character Name : Garda Special Branch (Black Trench Coat)

Original Name : Damien Donnelly

Gender : Male

Character Name : Oxford Student

Original Name : Kilmurry Jennifer

Gender : Female

Character Name : Oxford Union Member

Original Name : James Sadat

Gender : Male

Reviews

CinemaSerf

@Geronimo1967

2024-03-26

Compelled to be presented to the Queen as a debutante in return for an Oxford University education, Rose Dugdale (Imogen Poots) rebels from a fairly early age. Her privileged upbringing - as so often happens - leads her to detest the very hands that fed her in her childhood. Meantime, the troubles in Northern Ireland in the early 1970s are only increasing and after a trip to a training camp in Cuba, she returns a fully capable, bomb-making, terrorist - with a brain and a conscience. A plot is devised to rob a stately home of some valuable Goya, Rubens and Vermeer paintings and hold them as hostage for £500,000 and the freedom of two hunger striking IRA prisoners incarcerated in the UK. What now ensues is a rather weekly constructed speculation as to just how this shrewd plan was executed and of the aftermath. The story is an interesting history - but with the timelines dancing around all over the place and the performance of Poots a bit hit or miss, I found the pace of the film too bitty. We are all too often left dangling when a storyline is being developed and talking of development, there is very little to inform us about who the real Dugdale was. The screenplay doesn't shy away from describing the radicalisation here nor of some of it's concomitant brutality but somehow her vitriolic detestation of the British state is left completely unexplained. This subject could make for a strong political documentary on a woman who was clearly dedicated to her cause, but as a drama - this doesn't ever really engage.