Project Detail

Anxiety

Synopsis

Vera Fairfax (Susannah Morley) believes she has achieved everything she could wish for, through social climbing and marriage to a powerful bureaucrat.

That is until her husband Robert (Ian Swann), meets his match in his former protégé Cadogan (Ian Good).

Cadogan's manipulation of the apparatus of this totalitarian state, results in Robert's death and Vera being turned into a non-person.

Abandoned to the whims of Cadogan's unseen manipulation of the state system, Vera has only one possible course of action - to seek a fitting revenge on Cadogan.

Details

Year
2000
Type of project
Features
Running time
87 min
Format
35mm Kodak
Director
Alasdair Ogilvie
Producer
Alasdair Ogilvie
Editor
Stuart Murray
Screenwriter
Alasdair Ogilvie
Director of Photography
Steve Brook-Smith
Sound
Peter Enter
Composer
Dominic Shovelton
Principal cast
Susannah Morley, Ian Good, Ian Swann, Adrian Ross-Magenty, Toby Walton

Genre

Categories

Production Status

Production Company

Mortal Films Ltd

Contact: Alasdair Ogilvie
The Old School
Daglingworth
Cirencester
Gloucestershire GL7 7AQ
UK

T +44 01285 650339

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