Terry George: 'There was no way I was doing a propaganda thing'

Irish director and former republican prisoner Terry George tells Esther McCarthy about his controversial new genocide drama and his fond memories of Martin McGuinness.

HOTEL RWANDA won him international acclaim and an Oscar nomination. Now, filmmaker Terry George returns to a dark period in human history, with controversial results, in The Promise.

George’s new film dramatises the Armenian genocide, where up to 1.5 million people were exterminated by the then-Ottoman government during World War I.