A Man of No Importance
- Released on
- Runtime
- 99 mins
Alfie Byrne is a middle-aged bus conductor in Dublin in 1963. He would appear to live a life of quiet desperation: he's gay, but firmly closeted, and his sister is always trying to find him "the right girl". His passion is Oscar Wilde, his hobby is putting on amateur theatre productions in the local church hall. We follow him as he struggles with temptation, friendship, disapproval, and the conservative yet oddly lyrical world of Ireland in the early 1960s.
Alfie Byrne is a middle-aged bus conductor in Dublin in 1963. He would appear to live a life of quiet desperation: he's gay, but firmly closeted, and his sister is always trying to find him "the right girl". His passion is Oscar Wilde, his hobby is putting on amateur theatre productions in the local church hall. We follow him as he struggles with temptation, friendship, disapproval, and the conservative yet oddly lyrical world of Ireland in the early 1960s.
Cast
- Albert Finney
- Brenda Fricker
- Michael Gambon
- Tara Fitzgerald
- Rufus Sewell
- Patrick Malahide
- David Kelly
- Mick Lally
- Anna Manahan
- Joe Pilkington
- Brendan Conroy
- Joan O'Hara
- Eileen Reid
- Eileen Conroy
- Maureen Egan
- Paddy Ashe
- Pat Killalea
- John Killalea
- Pascale Perry
- Joe Savino
- Paudge Behan
- Jimmy Keogh
- Ingrid Craigie
- Enda Oates
- Damien Kaye
- Catherine Byrne
- Dylan Tighe
- Stuart Dunne
- Jonathan Rhys Meyers
- Vincent Walsh
- Paul Roe
Director
- Suri Krishnamma
Producers
- Jonathan Cavendish
Screenwriter
- Barry Devlin
