The Shell Seekers (2007)
Penelope Keeling, a sixty-four-year-old daughter of a famous artist, reflects on her life, and the fate and choices that defined it, when she arrives in the Mediterranean to stay with her headstrong daughter. Shifting through time, and falling into place like the pieces of a jigsaw, the truth of Penelope's rich, heartbreaking and surprising life unfolds.
Director:
Piers Haggard
Writer:
Brian Finch
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Vanessa Redgrave as Penelope Keeling |
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Maximilian Schell as Lawrence Sterne |
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Charles Edwards as Noel Keeling |
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Prunella Scales as Dolly Keeling |
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Victoria Smurfit as Olivia Keeling |
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Victoria Hamilton as Nancy Chamberlaine |
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Sebastian Koch as Cosmo König |
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Stephanie Stumph as Antonia König |
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Richard Hope as George Chamberlaine |
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Lucas Gregorowicz as Danus Muirfield |
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Maisie Dimbleby as Young Penelope |
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Toby Fisher as Ambrose Keeling |
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Alastair Mackenzie as Richard |
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Cherith Mellor as Mrs. Plackett |
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Hugh Sachs as Roy Brookner |
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Imogen Bain as Sister Rogers |
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Rebecca Blake as Angie |
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Amanda Boxer as Aunt Ethel Stern |
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Max Cane as Ernie Penberthy |
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Tim Faraday as Jim Slade |
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Patrick Godfrey as Mr. Enderby |
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Nickolas Grace as Mundy |
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Rosalind Knight as Mrs. Croftway |
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Neil May as Pub Customer |
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Penelope McGhie as Woman in Street |
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Christopher Ravenscroft as Colonel Mellaby |
| Writing | Brian Finch | Screenplay |
| Directing | Piers Haggard | Director |
| Production | David Cunliffe | Producer |
| Writing | Rosamunde Pilcher | Author |
| Camera | Tony Imi | Director of Photography |
| Sound | Richard Blackford | Original Music Composer |
| Production | Verena von Heeremann | Producer |
| Production | Stephen Sikder | Casting |
| Art | Alice Felton | Set Decoration |
| Costume & Make-Up | Mécheal Taylor | Costume Design |
| Art | Madelaine Leech | Art Direction |
| Directing | Jo Beckett | Script Supervisor |
| Costume & Make-Up | Sarah Melvin | Assistant Costume Designer |
| Art | Roger Cann | Production Design |
| Costume & Make-Up | Natasha Cottier | Costume Supervisor |
| Costume & Make-Up | Fran Needham | Makeup Designer |
| Production | Suzanne M. Smith | Casting |
| Costume & Make-Up | Jane Spicer | Assistant Costume Designer |
| Art | Michael Trevor | Art Direction |
| Sound | Ben Meechan | Sound Effects Editor |