Peter Mullan

The Magdalene Sisters is the second feature-lenght film Peter Mullan has directed.

about teenage girls , otherwise known as the 'Magdalene Laundries': who were sent to Magdalene Asylums

The Magdalene Sisters is a 2002 film written and directed by Peter Mullan about teenage girls who were sent to Magdalene Asylums, otherwise known as the 'Magdalene Laundries':

Anne Marie Duff,

The Magdalene Sisters, Peter Mullan’s 2002 drama about the Magdalene laundries, starring Anne-Marie Duff and Geraldine McEwan.

the second feature-length film Danny Boyle has directed

The Magdalene Sisters (2002) is the second feature-length film Danny Boyle has directed.

Peter Mullen

In 2002 The Magdalene Sisters, written and directed by Peter Mullen, was a successful film starring Anne Marie Duff, Nora Jane Noone, Dorothy Duffy, Geraldine McEwan, and Eileen Walsh.

a 2002 movie ’ called The Magdalene Sisters about 4 young women who are sent to Magdalene Asylums, also known as ‘Magdalene Laundries)

From writer / director Peter Mullan comes a 2002 movie called The Magdalene Sisters about 4 young women who are sent to Magdalene Asylums, also known as ‘Magdalene Laundries’), homes for women who were labelled as “fallen” by their families or society.

the most direct, sustained and comprehensive, immersing viewers in a horrific present-tense depiction of physical and emotional abuse of young girls , but also addressing clerical sexual abuse consigned to Magdalene laundries

Of these three films, “The Magdalene Sisters” (2002), from writer-director Peter Mullan, is the most direct, sustained and comprehensive, immersing viewers in a horrific present-tense depiction of physical and emotional abuse of young girls consigned to Magdalene laundries, but also addressing clerical sexual abuse.

the story as The Magdalene Sisters were often called of four fictional women , who writhe against the fate of 30,000 real Irish women who were punished for The Magdalene Sisters's sexuality between the 18th and in The Magdalene Laundries, or the late 20th century Asylums

The Magdalene Sisters – a film by Peter Mullan – follows the story of four fictional women who writhe against the fate of 30,000 real Irish women who were punished for The Magdalene Sisters's sexuality between the 18th and the late 20th century in The Magdalene Laundries, or Asylums, as The Magdalene Sisters were often called.

the top prize , the Golden Lion,

The Magdalene Sisters, by Scottish director Peter Mullan, scooped the top prize, the Golden Lion, at the closing ceremony of the Venice film festival.

by Charles Van Caster, a veteran band musician and teacher

The Sister Magdalens are tutored and directed by Charles Van Caster, a veteran band musician and teacher.

Ken Russell

Ken Russell directed, with Alan Bates and Oliver Reed as the two friends, and Glenda Jackson and Jennie Linden as the sisters.

John McGill

John McGill made John McGill's directorial debut with 'Orphans,' followed by 'The Magdalene Sisters,' which won a Golden Lion at the Venice International Film Festival.

Magali Clément

Magali Clément was a French director, screenwriter and actress.

Dino Dimitriadis

The cast, Belinda Giblin (Sister Aloysius), Matilda Ridgway (Sister James), Damian de Montemas (Father Flynn) and Charmaine Bingwa (Mrs Muller), was directed by Dino Dimitriadis.

Garth Davis

Garth Davis follows up on Lion by directing Mary Magdalene.

From the acclaimed director of ORPHANS

From the acclaimed director of ORPHANS, THE MAGDALENE SISTERS is a powerful and emotional journey, charting several years in the young lives of four 'fallen women' who find themselves incarcerated by the Catholic church, to work in their laundry business.

The Council Fathers

The Council Fathers directed the sisters to adapt Regans's“manner of living, praying and working” to the surrounding culture at the very time when the civil-rights movement, the second wave of feminism, and liberation theology were bursting noisily on the scene.