Ascendancy Movie

Ascendancy
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Run Time: 92 min
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Released: 1983
Directors: Edward Bennett
Genre/Type: Drama
Period Film
Psychological Drama
Producers: Penny Clark
Ian Elsey
Plot Synopsis by Tana Hobart
An interesting approach to the English-Irish tensions, this is the first feature film done by British documentary filmmaker Edward Bennett. The story revolves around a young woman from a wealthy family who protests the horrors she witnesses in her life by the increasing debility of her own body. When her brother is killed, she loses the use of her right arm. When the Catholics and Protestants demonstrate increasing violence and tension, she becomes mute. It is an interesting metaphor, but leaves the audience only visually involved in the storyline as the girl can no longer articulate what it is that is causing her to have these emotional schisms with her own body. Set just after WWI, it is still a powerful statement regarding the alienation found on common soil and the profound emotional effects it has on those who must live with it.

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*Julie Covington as Connie Wintour *Ian Charleson as Lt. *John Phillips as Wintour *Susan Engel as Nurse

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Actors Character Born
Julie Covington Connie
Ian Charleson Ryder Aug 11, 1949 in Edinburgh, Scotland
John Phillips Wintour
Susan Engel Nurse Mar 25, 1935 in Vienna, Austria
Philip Locke Dr. Strickland Mar 29, 1928 in Marylebone, London, England, UK
Kieran Montague Dr. Kelso
Jeremy Sinden Darcy Jun 14, 1950 in London, England, UK
Rynagh O'Grady Rose
Philomena McDonagh Mary

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