The Magdalene Sisters
(2002)
★ 7.5 IMDb · 486 votes
Year: 2002
Runtime: 119 мин
Country: Ireland, United Kingdom
Director: Питер Муллан
Cast: Энн-Мэри Дафф, Нора-Джейн Нун, Dorothy Duffy, Джеральдин Макьюэн, Eileen Walsh, Mary Murray, Eamonn Owens, Britta Smith, Питер Муллан, Eithne McGuinness
Plot
Three young Irish women struggle to maintain their spirits while they endure dehumanizing abuse as inmates of a Magdalene Sisters Asylum.
A thoroughly mind-provoking film about 3 young women who, under tragic circumstances, see themselves cast away to a Magdalene Asylum for young women in 1964. One of many like institutions, the asylums are run like prisons and young girls are forced to do workhouse laundry and hard labor. The asylum, one of many that existed in theocratic Catholic Ireland, is for supposedly 'fallen' women. Here, young girls are imprisoned indefinitely and endure agonizing punishments and a long, harsh working system which leaves them physically drained and mentally damaged. As the girls bond together, it soon becomes clear that the only way out of the Magdalene convent is to escape, but with twisted Sister Bridget running the wing, any chances seem limited...