December bride

Unfolding against the rolling contours of the beautiful Ulster coastline Thaddeus O’Sullivan’s film is a brooding and stunningly photographed drama of broken taboos within the harshly repressive atmosphere of a turn-of-the-century Presbyterian community. Sarah is the servant girl left alone on the Echlin farm with brothers Hamilton and Frank. Her subsequent pregnancy outrages local minister Sorleyson when she refuses to name the father or marry either of the two men. But can she find a way of living with the consequences that neither ostracises the family completely nor runs against her steadfastly independent principles.

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Credits

producer

Jonathan Cavendish

production company

Little Bird

Film Four International

Central TV

British Screen

director

Thaddeus O'Sullivan

Duration

01:28:00:00

Production places

Ireland

Production dates

1990

Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

303616

Language

English

Audience classification

PG

Subject categories

Feature films

Feature films → Feature films - Ireland

Sound/audio

Sound

Colour

Holdings

VHS; Access Print (Section 1)

Wikidata

Q1962827

TMDB-Movie

267215

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Ireland, 1990