Project Detail

The Moth

Synopsis

Talented young carpenter Robert Bradley moves from the Jarrow shipyards to the country to join his uncle's furniture business in 1913. Life in the country is not always the idyll he had imagined and Robert is eventually driven from his uncle's home by damning accusations. Robert quickly finds work with the Thormans of Foreshaw Park where his meeting with the Thorman sisters provides a further conflict in an already self-destructive household.

Details

Year: 1998
Type of project: Features
Running time: 180 mins
Format: 16mm, Digi Betta SP Fuji
Director: Roy Battersby
Producer: Keith Richardson
Executive Producer: Keith Richardson
Director of Photography: Robin Vidgeon BSC
Principal cast: Jack Davenport, Juliet Aubrey, Justine Waddell and David Howey
Screen Writer: Gordon Hann

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Festival Film & Television Ltd Festival House Tranquil Passage Blackheath London SE3 OBJ Tel: 020 8297 9999 Fax: 020 8297 1155

Sales Company

Brite TV The London TV Centre Upper Ground London SE1 9LT Tel: 020 7737 8323 Fax: 020 7928 8470

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