Charlie is written and directed by John Breen writer and director of Alone it
Stands.

Charlie tells the story of the political life of former Irish Prime Minister
Charles Haughey who dominated political and cultural life in Ireland for almost thirty years. Opinion is divided on whether he was the greatest leader the country has ever had or the worst.

Under his leadership the state was corrupted, and the political process was
sullied for a generation. But Charles Haughey also began the discussions that led to the peace process, and laid the economic foundations of our present prosperity.

Charlie looks at his ascent to power in the seventies, to his wielding it and
losing it in the eighties and early nineties. It recreates the political and
financial world Charles Haughey dominated for a generation.