Film

Borstal Boy

6.220011h 31m15Drama

Age rating: 15
Director: Peter Sheridan
Year: 2001

As a prisoner of war it is my duty to escape.

Brendan Behan, a sixteen year-old IRA foot soldier, is going on a bombing mission from Ireland to Liverpool during the second world war. His mission is thwarted when he is apprehended, charged and imprisoned in Borstal, a reform institution for young offenders in East Anglia, England.