Anchoress

Anchoress

5.9IMDb Score
Released:1993-09-10
Duration:108 min
Director:Chris Newby
Actors:Natalie Morse, Gene Bervoets, Toyah Willcox, Pete Postlethwaite, Christopher Eccleston
Production:BFI, Corsan, Upstate Films, Channel 4 Television, BRTN

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.

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