A Sense of Freedom

A Sense of Freedom is a 1979 Scottish crime film directed by John Mackenzie for Scottish Television. The film starred David Hayman and featured Hector Nicol & Fulton Mackay, is a based on the autobiography of Glasgow gangster Jimmy Boyle, who was reputed to be Scotland's most violent man. Due to non-co-operation by the Scottish Prison Service in allowing a film crew access to their property, Hayman's scenes in prison were filmed in Dublin's Kilmainham Jail.

Films directed by John Mackenzie
1970s
  • One Brief Summer (1970)
  • Unman, Wittering and Zigo (1971)
  • Made (1972)
  • A Sense of Freedom (1979)
1980s
  • The Long Good Friday (1980)
  • The Honorary Consul (1983)
  • The Innocent (1985)
  • The Fourth Protocol (1987)
1990s
  • The Last of the Finest (1990)
  • Ruby (1992)
  • Voyage (1993)
  • The Infiltrator (1995)
  • Deadly Voyage (1996)
  • Looking After Jo Jo (1998)
2000s
  • When the Sky Falls (2000)
  • Quicksand (2003)

Famous quotes containing the words sense and/or freedom:

    “Writing fiction has developed in me an abiding respect for the unknown in a human lifetime and a sense of where to look for the threads, how to follow, how to connect, find in the thick of the tangle what clear line persists. The strands are all there: to the memory nothing is ever really lost.”
    —Eudora Welty (b. 1909)

    “Men who want to support women in our struggle for freedom and justice should understand that it is not terrifically important to us that they learn to cry; it is important to us that they stop the crimes of violence against us.”
    —Andrea Dworkin (b. 1946)