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

Drama

Production Status

Complete

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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