Five Minutes of Heaven

Five Minutes of Heaven
Promotional film poster
Directed byOliver Hirschbiegel
Written byGuy Hibbert
Produced byEoin O'Callaghan
Stephen Wright
Starring
CinematographyRuairi O'Brien
Edited byHans Funck
Music byDavid Holmes
Production
companies
Big Fish Films
Element Pictures
Ruby Films
Distributed byBBC Television (United Kingdom)
IFC Films (United States)
Pathé (worldwide)
Release dates
  • 19 January 2009 (2009-01-19) (Sundance)
  • 27 February 2009 (2009-02-27) (Ireland)
Running time
90 minutes
CountriesUnited Kingdom
Ireland
LanguagesEnglish
Irish
Box office$87,906[1]

Five Minutes of Heaven is a 2009 film directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel from a script by Guy Hibbert. The film premiered on 19 January 2009 at the 25th Sundance Film Festival[2] where it won the World Cinema Dramatic Directing Award for Hirschbiegel, and the World Cinema Screenwriting Award for Hibbert.[3] As a television film it was broadcast on BBC Two on 5 April 2009, and also had an international feature film release.

The first part reconstructs the historical killing of 19-year-old Jim Griffin by 17-year-old Alistair Little in 1975, and the second part depicts a fictional meeting between Little and Griffin's brother Joe 33 years later.

  1. ^ "Five Minutes of Heaven". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 14 January 2014.
  2. ^ "Five Minutes of Heaven (2009) Release Info". IMDb. Retrieved 11 August 2013.
  3. ^ "Awards for Five Minutes of Heaven". IMDb. Retrieved 11 August 2013.