The Shell Seekers

Duration: 174 min

Release date: 2007-10-18

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Penelope Keeling, a sixty-four-year-old daughter of a famous artist, reflects on her life, and the fate and choices that defined it, when she arrives in the Mediterranean to stay with her headstrong daughter. Shifting through time, and falling into place like the pieces of a jigsaw, the truth of Penelope's rich, heartbreaking and surprising life unfolds.

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Vanessa Redgrave

Vanessa Redgrave

as Penelope Keeling

Maximilian Schell

Maximilian Schell

as Lawrence Sterne

Charles Edwards

Charles Edwards

as Noel Keeling

Prunella Scales

Prunella Scales

as Dolly Keeling

Victoria Smurfit

Victoria Smurfit

as Olivia Keeling

Victoria Hamilton

Victoria Hamilton

as Nancy Chamberlaine

as Cosmo König

Stephanie Stumph

Stephanie Stumph

as Antonia König

as George Chamberlaine

Lucas Gregorowicz

Lucas Gregorowicz

as Danus Muirfield

Maisie Dimbleby

Maisie Dimbleby

as Young Penelope

as Ambrose Keeling

Alastair Mackenzie

Alastair Mackenzie

as Mrs. Plackett

as Roy Brookner

as Sister Rogers

as Aunt Ethel Stern

as Ernie Penberthy

Patrick Godfrey

Patrick Godfrey

Rosalind Knight

Rosalind Knight

as Mrs. Croftway

as Pub Customer

Penelope McGhie

Penelope McGhie

as Woman in Street

Christopher Ravenscroft

Christopher Ravenscroft

as Colonel Mellaby

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Richard Blackford

Richard Blackford

Original Music Composer

Rosamunde Pilcher

Rosamunde Pilcher

Verena von Heeremann

Verena von Heeremann

Director of Photography

Mécheal Taylor

Production Design

Assistant Costume Designer

Suzanne M. Smith

Suzanne M. Smith

Assistant Costume Designer

Natasha Cottier

Natasha Cottier

Costume Supervisor

Makeup Designer

Madelaine Leech

Madelaine Leech

Script Supervisor

Sound Effects Editor

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