Song for a Raggy Boy

2003 · Movie · 100 min. · Ireland

Song for a Raggy Boy
Drama Based on True Stories School · University 1930s 1940s Sexual Abuse Spanish Civil War

"Song for a Raggy Boy" is based on the true story of a single teacher's courage to stand up against an untouchable prefect's sadistic disciplinary regime and other abuse in a Catholic Reformatory and Industrial School in 1939 Ireland.

Direction Aisling Walsh

Cast Aidan Quinn · Iain Glen · Dudley Sutton · Marc Warren · Claus Bue · Andrew Simpson · Alan Devlin · Stuart Graham · Chris Newman · Simone Bendix · John Travers · Juan José Ballesta

Soundtrack Richard Blackford

Screenplay Aisling Walsh · Kevin Byron-Murphy · Patrick Galvin

Cinematography Peter Robertson

Original title Song for a Raggy Boy

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