Film
Fireworks for Elspeth
- Director
- Alvin Rakoff
- Year
- 1983
Will they starve her? Shave her head? Force her to wear a hair shirt? Elspeth's friends and family react with horror, grief and even derision to her desire to become a nun. She experiences her parents' hurt, her fiancee's feeling of betrayal, her friends' incomprehension - and her own obstinate joy.
Top cast
Fiona Shaw
Elspeth
Barbara Leigh-Hunt
Mrs. Erskine
Robert Addie
Larry
Simon Cowell-Parker
Colin
Katy Durham-Matthews
Young Elspeth
Richard Garnett
Robert
Joanne Good
Sarah
Randal Herley
Uncle Arthur
Dione Inman
Daphne
Pauline Jefferson
Mrs. Cox
Sheila Keith
Mrs. Bannerman
David Langton
Mr. Erskine
Eve Matheson
Girl at Pool
Donald Morley
Mr. Buldock
Eileen Page
Reverend Mother
John Quentin
Vicar
Emma Rogers
Joanna
Dinah Sheridan
Aunt Bevis
Directed by
Alvin Rakoff
Written by
Lee Langley
Produced by
Roy Roberts