Absolution

Plot

At a Catholic boys' school, domineering disciplinarian Father Goddard rules over his pupils with an iron hand. When one of his teenage charges confesses to murder, the dogmatic but deeply repressed Goddard find... read more

  • Anthony Page

    Director

  • Anthony Shaffer

    Writer

  • John Coquillon

    Director of Photography

  • John Victor-Smith

    Editor

  • Richard Burton

    Father Goddard

  • Dominic Guard

    Benjamin 'Benjie' Stanfield

  • David Bradley

    Arthur Dyson

  • Billy Connolly

    Blakey

  • Andrew Keir

    Headmaster

  • Willoughby Gray

    Brigadier Walsh

  • Preston Lockwood

    Father Hibbert

  • James Ottaway

    Father Matthews

  • Brook Williams

    Father Clarence

  • Robin Soans

    Father Henryson

  • Trevor Martin

    Mr. Gladstone

  • Sharon Duce

    Louella

  • Brian Glover

    the first policeman

  • Dan Meaden

    the second policeman

  • Hilary Mason

    Miss Froggatt

  • Hilda Fenemore

    Mrs. Hoskins

  • Robert Addie

    Cawley

  • Philip Leake

    Gregory

  • Jon Plowman

    Father Piers

  • Michael Crompton

    O'Dowd

  • Andrew Boxer

    a boy

  • Richard Willis

    a boy

  • Michael Parkhouse

    a boy

  • Richard Kates

    a boy

  • Martyn Hesford

    a boy

  • Clive Gehle

    a boy

  • Charles Rigby

    a boy

  • Michael Bell

    a boy

  • Martin Stringer

    a boy

  • Francis Fry

    a boy

  • Julian Firth

    a boy

  • Tim Short

    a boy

  • Michael Munn

    a priest

  • Kevin Hart

    Peterson

  • Runtime

    95 minutes

    Released

    1978-06-05

    Languages

    English

    Latin

    Countries

    United Kingdom

    Studios

    Bulldog

    Enterprise Pictures

    Trans World Entertainment

    Sound

  • Stanley Myers

    Original Music Composer

  • Updated

    9 days ago

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