Movie
The Magdalene Sisters
Overview
Three young Irish women struggle to maintain their spirits while they endure dehumanizing abuse as inmates of a Magdalene Sisters Asylum.
Details
- Release date
- 2002-08-30
- Runtime
- 119 min
- Genres
- Drama, History
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Scottish Screen, Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland, Momentum Pictures, PFP Films, Temple Films, Dumfries & Galloway Council, South West Scotland Screen Commission, Scottish Enterprise Dumfries & Galloway, UK Film Council's New Cinema Fund, Element Pictures
- Country
- Ireland, United Kingdom
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Anne-Marie Duff as Margaret
- Nora-Jane Noone as Bernadette
- Dorothy Duffy as Rose
- Geraldine McEwan as Sister Bridget
- Eileen Walsh as Crispina
- Mary Murray as Una
- Eamonn Owens as Eamonn
- Britta Smith as Katy
- Peter Mullan as Mr O'Connor
- Eithne McGuinness as Sister Clementine
- Frances Healy as Sister Jude
- Phyllis MacMahon as Sister Augusta
Crew
- Peter Mullan - Director
- Peter Mullan - Screenplay
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