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In Absentia

Synopsis

A woman suffering from PTSD must trek back up the same mountain that she and her husband were pushed off months before to put an end to her nightmares and to catch her husbands killer.
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Details

Year
2020
Type of project
Features
Running time
100 min
Format
Digital BlackMagic 4k
Director
Christopher Lang
Producer
Tom Gripper, Dan Bailey, Christopher Lang
Editor
Dan Broughton
Screenwriter
Christopher Lang
Director of Photography
Andrew Toovey
Production Designer
Aidan Biddescombe
Sound
James Barrett
Composer
Jason Savoury
Principal cast
Calire Cage, Siwan Morris, Julian Lewis Jones, Richard Ellis,

Genre

Action Welsh

Categories

Fiction

Production Status

Post-production

Production Company

Pooka Films

Christopher Lang

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