Absolution

Absolution (1978)

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

  • Genre: Drama, Thriller, Mystery
  • Release Date: 1978-06-05
  • User Rating: 6.4/10 from 38 ratings
  • Runtime: 1h 35min
  • Language: English
  • Production Company: Bulldog
  • Production Country: United Kingdom
  • Director: Anthony Page
star 6.4/10
From 38 Ratings

Summary

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.

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  • Richard Burton

    as Father Goddard

  • Dominic Guard

    as Benjamin 'Benjie' Stanfield

  • David Bradley

    as Arthur Dyson

  • Billy Connolly

    as Blakey

  • Andrew Keir

    as Headmaster

  • Willoughby Gray

    as Brigadier Walsh

  • Preston Lockwood

    as Father Hibbert

  • James Ottaway

    as Father Matthews

  • Brook Williams

    as Father Clarence

  • Robin Soans

    as Father Henryson

  • Trevor Martin

    as Mr. Gladstone

  • Sharon Duce

    as Louella

  • Brian Glover

    as the first policeman

  • Dan Meaden

    as the second policeman

  • Hilary Mason

    as Miss Froggatt

  • Hilda Fenemore

    as Mrs. Hoskins

  • Robert Addie

    as Cawley

  • Philip Leake

    as Gregory

  • Jon Plowman

    as Father Piers

  • Michael Crompton

    as O'Dowd

  • Andrew Boxer

    as a boy

  • Richard Willis

    as a boy

  • Michael Parkhouse

    as a boy

  • Richard Kates

    as a boy

  • Martyn Hesford

    as a boy

  • Clive Gehle

    as a boy

  • Charles Rigby

    as a boy

  • Michael Bell

    as a boy

  • Martin Stringer

    as a boy

  • Francis Fry

    as a boy

  • Julian Firth

    as a boy

  • Tim Short

    as a boy

  • Michael Munn

    as a priest

  • Kevin Hart

    as Peterson
Production Elliott Kastner Producer
Directing Anthony Page Director
Writing Anthony Shaffer Writer
Production Danny O'Donovan Producer
Sound Stanley Myers Original Music Composer
Editing John Victor-Smith Editor
Camera John Coquillon Director of Photography
Art Natasha Kroll Production Design
Production Celestia Fox Casting
Production George Pappas Executive Producer
Costume & Make-Up Ron Berkeley Makeup Artist
Production Alan Cluer Executive Producer
Costume & Make-Up Freddie Williamson Makeup Artist
Production Denis Holt Associate Producer
Costume & Make-Up Betty Glasow Hairstylist
Costume & Make-Up Anne Gainsford Costume Design
Directing Ariel Levy First Assistant Director

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