Set in a post-Troubles Northern Ireland, The Truth Commissioner follows the fictional story of Henry Stanfield, played by Roger Allam (The Thick of It, V for Vendetta), a career diplomat who has just been appointed as Truth Commissioner to Northern Ireland. Eager to make good as a peacemaker, the Prime Minister urges a commission following the South African model of Truth and Reconciliation. Although Stanfield starts bravely, he quickly uncovers some bloody and inconvenient truths about those now running the country - truths which none of those in power wish to have revealed.
Directed by Declan Recks (Eden, Big Swinger) and produced by David Collins (Once), the film centres around a missing person’s case twenty years earlier, Stanfield is forced into the historic web of lies. And the truth, which is shaped by four men’s different pasts, remains as elusive as ever. Featuring Sean McGinley as former IRA leader Francis Gilroy, Ian McElhinney (Game of Thrones) as retired policeman James Fenton and Barry Ward (Jimmy’s Hall) as Michael Madden, who has returned from America to Belfast to face his past.
Irish Film Board
