‘Five Minutes of Heaven’ US Screening in LA | The Irish Film & Television Network

The film, directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel, stars Liam Neeson (Taken, Michael Collins) and James Nesbitt (Murphy's Law, Jekyll) and was shot in Northern Ireland during the summer of 2008, inspired by true events.

‘Five Minutes in Heaven’ is a story about two Ulstermen from opposite sides of sectarian conflict. One man is a killer; the other is the brother of a victim of the former, who witnessed his brother’s murder as a young boy. The two men are reunited on the set of a popular television reality show that hopes for a reconciliation story but underestimates the latter’s thirst for revenge. The film moves from potent archive material of the tragic, real events from Northern Ireland in 1975 to a fictional interpretation of what might happen should these two surviving men ever come face to face over 30 years later.

’Five Minutes of Heaven’ was written by Guy Hibbert and produced by Eoin O'Callaghan, Ed Guiney and Andrew Lowe for Big Fish Films, Ruby Films and Element Pictures, it was co-financed by BBC Films, Pathé, Northern Ireland Screen and the Irish Film Board.

The film was a winner of two awards at the 2009 Sundance Film Festival; the Best World Cinema Director for Oliver Hirschbiegel (Downfall, Das Experiment) and Best World Cinema Screenwriter for Guy Hibbert (Omagh)

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