The Shell Seekers

Oct 18, 2007

2h 54m

★ 6.9

Overview

Penelope Keeling, a sixty-four-year-old daughter of a famous artist, reflects on her life, and the fate and choices that defined it, when she arrives in the Mediterranean to stay with her headstrong daughter. Shifting through time, and falling into place like the pieces of a jigsaw, the truth of Penelope's rich, heartbreaking and surprising life unfolds.

Genres

Drama

Romance

Production Companies

Neue Tonfilm

Gate Television Productions

Clasart Film + TV Produktions GmbH

ZDF

ORF

Tele München

ZDF Enterprises

Clasart Film

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Cast

Penelope Keeling

Vanessa Redgrave

Lawrence Sterne

Maximilian Schell

Noel Keeling

Charles Edwards

Dolly Keeling

Prunella Scales

Olivia Keeling

Victoria Smurfit

Nancy Chamberlaine

Victoria Hamilton

Cosmo König

Sebastian Koch

Antonia König

Stephanie Stumph

George Chamberlaine

Richard Hope

Danus Muirfield

Lucas Gregorowicz

Young Penelope

Maisie Dimbleby

Ambrose Keeling

Toby Fisher

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