Absolution

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Absolution (1978)

R 01/07/1988 (US) Drama, Thriller, Mystery 1h 35m

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One man, two boys... one deadly game.

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At a Catholic boys' school, domineering disciplinarian Father Goddard rules over his pupils with an iron hand. When one of his teenage charges confesses to murder, the dogmatic but deeply repressed Goddard finds his faith challenged and his life spiralling dangerously out of control.

Anthony Page

Director
Anthony Shaffer

Writer

Hoofdrolspelers

Richard Burton

Father Goddard
Dominic Guard

Benjamin 'Benjie' Stanfield
David Bradley

Arthur Dyson
Billy Connolly

Blakey
Andrew Keir

Headmaster
Willoughby Gray

Brigadier Walsh
Preston Lockwood

Father Hibbert
James Ottaway

Father Matthews
Brook Williams

Father Clarence
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Geschreven door Wuchak op 24 juni 2022

Burgeoning iniquities underneath the surface at a boys’ religious school

A strict schoolmaster at a Catholic boarding school in England named Goddard (Richard Burton) favors one student, Benjie Stanfield (Dominic Guard), but seems to loathe his awkward misfit ‘friend,’ Arthur Dyson (Dai Bradley). Meanwhile Benjie befriends a vagrant hippie (Billy Connolly), a relationship of which Goddard disapproves. Havoc ensues.

"Absolution" (1978) is a psychological drama/mystery with some thrills in the last act scripted by the screenwriter of “The Wicker Man” (1973). It’s the inverse of “Picni... lees de rest.

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