Ascendancy (1983)

Directed by

Edward Bennett

Genre

drama film

Country

Australia, United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 32m

Rating

4.7 of 10 from 9 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Set in Ireland during World War I, a woman from a wealthy British landowning family slowly discovers the Irish independence movement and gets drawn into it.

slow-burnsomberintrospectivepolitically chargedrestrainedthoughtfulbroodingmelancholic

What happens

Ascendancy is a 1983 British drama film directed by Edward Bennett and starring Julie Covington and Ian Charleson. It tells the story of a woman who is a member of the British landowning 'Ascendancy' in Ireland during World War I. Gradually, she learns about the Irish independence movement, and becomes involved with it. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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