An Angel at My Table
1990 · Movie · 158 min. · New Zealand
In 1920s and 1930s New Zealand, Janet Frame grows up in a poor family with lots of brothers and sisters. Already at an early age she is different from the other kids. She gets an education as a teacher but since she is considered abnormal she is locked up in a mental institution for eight years. Success comes when she starts to write books.
Direction Jane Campion
Cast Kerry Fox · Karen Fergusson · Alexia Keogh · Kevin J. Wilson · Iris Churn · Melina Bernecker · Andrew Robertt · Brenda Kendall · Paul Moffat · Timothy Bartlett · Edith Campion · Lilian Enting · Maureen Duffy · Karla Smith · Willa O'Neill · Fritha Stalker · Melanie Reid · Natasha Gray · Kelly Stewart · Glynis Angell · Erin Mills · Virginia Brocklehurst · Sarah Smuts-Kennedy · Colin McColl · Erin Dorricott · Francene Clark · Rod Collison · Annabelle Lomas · Jim Rawdon · Peter Brunt · Celia Nicholson · Peter Needham · Martyn Sanderson · Jessica Wilcox · Mark Clare
Soundtrack Don McGlashan
Screenplay Laura Jones · Janet Frame
Cinematography Stuart Dryburgh
Original title An Angel at My Table
6.9
561 votes (FilmAffinity)
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