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Closing the Ring

Synopsis

Oscar winning Director Richard Attenborough helms a deeply moving love story, beautifully interwoven between 1991 and World War Two, about how an American woman honoured a wartime promise, with a lifetime of denial - and how the discovery of a gold ring on a distant Irish hillside brought her back to life.

Details

Year
2007
Type of project
Features
Running time
118 mins
Format
35mm
Director
Richard Attenborough
Producer
Jo Gilbert, Richard Attenborough
Editor
Lesley Walker
Director of Photography
Roger Pratt
Production Designer
Tom McCullagh
Composer
Jeff Danna
Principal cast
Shirely MacLaine, Christopher Plummer, Mischa Barton, Stephen Amell, Neve Campbell, Pete Postlethwaite, Brenda Fricker, Gregory Smith, Ian McElhinney, Martn McCann, David Alpay

Genre

Drama

Categories

Fiction

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Closing the Ring Ltd.

Millennium Bridge House
2 Lambeth Hill
London EC4V 4AJ
UK

Sales Company

Content Film International

19 Heddon Street
London W1B 4BG
UK

T +44 (0)20 7851 6500

sophiegarrett@contentfilm.com

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