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Fireworks for Elspeth (1983)

Directed by Alvin Rakoff

Overview

Will they starve her? Shave her head? Force her to wear a hair shirt? Elspeth’s friends and family react with horror, grief and even derision to her desire to become a nun. She experiences her parents’ hurt, her fiancee’s feeling of betrayal, her friends’ incomprehension - and her own obstinate joy.

Length 51 minutes

Actors

Fiona Shaw | Barbara Leigh-Hunt | Robert Addie | Simon Cowell-Parker | Katy Durham-Matthews | Richard Garnett | Joanne Good | Randal Herley | Dione Inman | Pauline Jefferson | Sheila Keith | David Langton | Eve Matheson | Donald Morley | Eileen Page | John Quentin | Emma Rogers | Dinah Sheridan | Norman Wooland | Dilys Worsfold | Tessa Worsley