The Woman on the Cliff

The Woman on the Cliff

4.4IMDb Score
Released:2013-03-27
Duration:89 min
Country:Germany
Director:Dieter Kehler
Actors:Mira Bartuschek, Daniel Buder, Heide Keller, Lutz Mackensy, Oliver Scheffel
Production:Wild Bunch Germany, ARTE

Overview:

London lawyer Owen Lockhart inherited a distant uncle's grand but run-down Cornish coastal estate and moves in with the intent to sell it. Senior constable Maxwell Breckett's wife Adele, his late uncle's secretary, hopes to change Owen's mind by rallying local clients and hiring as cook foxy local agricultural engineer Holly Heston, fatherless boarding school pupil Toby's single mother. She's in love with constable Lucas Corbin, the only one into whom she confided a grim family secret, but he finds out about her fast-budding affair with Owen.

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