The Guard

Thriller/Comedy, Ireland 2011

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Two policemen must join forces to take on an international drug- smuggling gang - one, an unorthodox Irish policeman and the other, a straitlaced FBI agent. Sergeant Gerry Boyle is an eccentric small-town cop with a confrontational and crass personality and a subversive sense of humor. A longtime policeman in County Galway, Boyle is a maverick with his own moral code. He has seen enough of the world to know there isn't much to it and has had plenty of time to think about it. When a fellow police officer disappears and Boyle's small town becomes key to a large drug trafficking investigation, he is forced to at least feign interest when dealing with the humorless FBI agent Wendell Everett assigned to the case.
97 min
HD
FSK 16
Audio language:
EnglishGerman
Subtitles:
German

Awards

Sarajevo Film Festival Audience Award
Berlinale Award Best First Feature

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Editor:

Chris Gill

Cast:

Brendan Gleeson (Gerry Boyle)

Don Cheadle (Wendell Everett)

Rory Keenan (Aidan McBride)

Laurence Kinlan (Photographer)

Mícheál Óg Lane (Eugene Moloney)

Liam Cunningham (Francis Sheehy)

Owen Sharpe (Billy Devaney)

Fionnula Flanagan (Eileen Boyle)

Wale Ojo (Dr. Oleyuwo)

Mark Strong (Clive Cornell)

Original title:

The Guard

Original language:

English

Format:

16:9 HD, Color

Age rating:

FSK 16

Audio language:

EnglishGerman

Subtitles:

German