Photographing Fairies

Photographing Fairies

★ 5.7IMDb Score
Released:1997-09-19
Duration:106 min
Director:Nick Willing
Actors:Toby Stephens, Emily Woof, Ben Kingsley, Frances Barber, Bernard Gallagher
Production:British Screen Productions, Arts Council of England, BBC, Dogstar

Overview:

Photographer Charles Castle is numbed with grief following the death of his beautiful bride. He goes off to war, working in the trenches as a photographer. Following the war and still in grief Charles is given some photographs purporting to be of fairies. His search for the truth leads him to Burkinwell, a seemingly peaceful village seething with secrets

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