
The Great Escaper(2023)
In the summer of 2014, a World War II veteran sneaks out of his care home to attend the 70th anniversary commemoration of the D-Day landings in Normandy.

Donal Gallery
Padraig

Jane McGrath
Mary
Ben Mulhern
Davey
John Carey
Grady
David Brazil
German Soldier

Pascal Scott
Thomas
Conor O'Gorman
Party Goer (uncredited)
Shellshock is a drama, history, war film released in 2011. it stars Donal Gallery, Jane McGrath, Ben Mulhern. Ireland, 1923. A young man returns home after fighting for the British Army during World War One. He struggles to settle back in, his memories of the trenches still haunting him.
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