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TITLE Ascendancy (1983)

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DISABILITY Limb Speaking Impaired Disability as metaphor

COUNTRY UK

LENGTH 92

GENRE Drama

DIRECTOR Edward Bennett

CAST Ian Charleson

Julie Covington

Susan Engel

Philip Locke

Philomena McDonagh

Kieran Montague

Rynagh O'Grady

John Phillips

Jeremy Sinden

NOTES Set shortly after WWI, a young woman's body reacts to the

British/Irish troubles. After her brother's death she loses

feeling in her right arm. As tension between Catholics and

Protestants increase she becomes speaking impaired.

 


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