Anchoress

Sep 10, 1993

1h 48m

★ 5.9

Ecstasy and orthodoxy in the 14th century!

Overview

A 14th-century peasant becomes transfixed by a statue of the Virgin Mary, and petitions to be walled into a cell attached to the church as a religious hermit.

Genres

Drama

Horror

Production Companies

BFI

Corsan

Upstate Films

Anchoress Trailers

Cast

Christine Carpenter

Natalie Morse

Reeve

Gene Bervoets

Pauline Carpenter

Toyah Willcox

William Carpenter

Pete Postlethwaite

Priest

Christopher Eccleston

Drover

Michaël Pas

Bertha

Julie T. Wallace

Mary

Annette Badland

Meg Carpenter

Brenda Bertin

Daisy

Veronica Quilligan

Alice

Ann Way

Bishop

François Beukelaers

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