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The Magdalene sisters / Miramax Films ... [and others] ; produced by Frances Higson ; written and directed by Peter Mullan.
LIBRA DVD 008 891
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- French
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- Magdalen Asylum (Ireland)--Drama.
- Magdalen Asylum (Ireland).
- Church work with women--Catholic Church--Ireland--Drama.
- Church work with women.
- Church work with women--Catholic Church.
- Convents.
- Women.
- Social conditions.
- Women--Crimes against.
- Unmarried mothers.
- Church work with unmarried mothers.
- Women--Institutional care.
- Reformatories for women.
- Ireland.
- Reformatories for women--Ireland--Drama.
- Women--Institutional care--Ireland--Drama.
- Church work with unmarried mothers--Ireland--Drama.
- Unmarried mothers--Ireland--Drama.
- Women--Crimes against--Ireland--Drama.
- Women--Ireland--Social conditions--Drama.
- Convents--Ireland--Drama.
- Motion pictures, Irish.
- Genre:
- Drama.
- Video recordings for hard of hearing people.
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
- Feature films.
- Religious films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (approximately 120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
- polychrome
- Edition:
- Widescreen presentation.
- Place of Publication:
- Burbank, CA : Miramax Home Entertainment : Buena Vista Home Entertainment, distributor, [2004]
- Language Note:
- In English and French with optional English, French and Spanish subtitles.
- Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.
- System Details:
- DVD - NTSC; Dolby digital 5.1; Region 1.
- digital
- optical
- Dolby digital 5.1
- NTSC
- video file
- DVD video
- region 1
- Summary:
- Margaret, Rose and Bernadette arrive at the Magdalene Laundries, an institution for "fallen" women, where they will atone for their sins through a regimented life of work and prayer. Overseen by the monstrous Sister Bridget, they soon learn that friendship and conversation are frowned upon, as they are stripped of their liberty and dignity. However, a loyal bond forms between the three women as they find comfort, laughter and hope.
- Participant:
- Geraldine McEwan, Anne-Marie Duff, Nora-Jane Noone, Dorothy Duffy, Eileen Walsh, Mary Murray, Britta Smith, Frances Healy, Eithne McGuinness.
- Credits:
- Director of photography, Nigel Willoughby ; editor, Colin Monie ; music, Craig Armstrong.
- Notes:
- "Based on the true events".--Container.
- Aspect ratio 1.85:1.
- Originally released as a motion picture in 2002.
- Special features: documentary "Sex in a cold climate" (1997, 50 min.) / Testimony Films for Channel Four ; producer [and director], Steve Humphries ; narrator, Dervia Kirwan. Presents a disturbing portrait of Magdalen asylums, run by unfeeling and sometimes sadistic Catholic nuns in Ireland for over a hundred years. The purpose of the asylums, named after the repentant biblical prostitute Mary Magdalene, was to correct the supposed sexual deviance of young women. The criteria of deviance were so broad some Magdalenes didn't know why they had been put away. The film follows the stories of four women who were detained in Magdalen asylums between the 1940s and the 1960s.
- Contains:
- Sex in a cold climate.
- ISBN:
- 0788850881
- OCLC:
- 54069513
- Publisher Number:
- 786936233094
- 33435 Miramax Home Entertainment
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