Fountaindale Public Library

The Magdalene sisters, Miramax Films, Scottish Screen, the Film Council and the Irish Film Board/Bord Scannán na hÉireann present a PFP Films production in association with Temple Films, a film by Peter Mullan ; produced by Frances Higson ; written and directed by Peter Mulan

Title from containerOriginally released as a motion picture in 2002Special features: documentary "Sex in a cold climate" (1997, 50 min.) / Testimony Films for Channel Four ; producer [and director], Steve Humphries ; narrator, Dervia Kirwan. Presents a disturbing portrait of Magdalen asylums, run by unfeeling and sometimes sadistic Catholic nuns in Ireland for over a hundred years. The purpose of the asylums, named after the repentant biblical prostitute Mary Magdalene, was to correct the supposed sexual deviance of young women. The criteria of deviance were so broad some Magdalenes didn't know why they had been put away. The film follows the stories of four women who were detained in Magdalen asylums between the 1940s and the 1960s"Dual-layer format"-- back cover of case

multicolored

quadrophonic multichannel or surround

Director of photography, Nigel Willoughby ; editor, Colin Monie ; music composer, Craig Armstrong ; costume designer, Trisha Biggar ; production designer, Mark Leese ; special effects supervisor, Steve Breheney

other

9780788850882

videodisc

Geraldine McEwan, Anne-Marie Duff, Nora-Jane Noone, Dorothy Duffy, Eileen Walsh, Mary Murray, Britta Smith, Frances Healy, Eithne McGuinness

1 videodisc (approximately 119 min.), sound, color, 4 3/4 in.

sound on medium

videodisc

(OCoLC)ocm54069513(Sirsi) u874757

DVD, produced for region 1 (North America); user must have a DVD player that will play region 1 DVDs; widescreen presentation (1.85:1); Dolby Digital

786936233094

33435 -- Miramax Home Entertainment

DVD