The Shell Seekers
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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.
Status: Released
Released Date: 2007-10-18
Runtime: 174 mins
Director: Piers Haggard
Spoken language: English, Deutsch
Genres: Drama, Romance
Original title: The Shell Seekers
Production Companies: Neue Tonfilm, Gate Television Productions, Clasart Film + TV Produktions GmbH, ZDF, ORF, Tele München, ZDF Enterprises, Clasart Film
Production Countries: Germany, United Kingdom
Cast
Vanessa Redgrave
Maximilian Schell
Charles Edwards
Prunella Scales
Victoria Smurfit
Victoria Hamilton
Sebastian Koch
Stephanie Stumph
Richard Hope
Lucas Gregorowicz
Maisie Dimbleby
Toby Fisher
Alastair Mackenzie
Cherith Mellor
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