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The Magdalene Sisters is a 2002 drama film written and directed by Peter Mullan, about three teenage girls who were sent to Magdalene asylums (also known as Magdalene laundries), homes for women who were labelled as "fallen" by their families or society.
A typical women-in-prision film made untypical because it's based on real events. In 1964, three teenage Irish girls are sent to a Magdalene asylum, an archaic home for "fallen women," though...
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- Peter Mullan
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- Geraldine Mcewan
Aug 29, 2003 · The Magdalene Sisters: Directed by Peter Mullan. With Geraldine McEwan, Anne-Marie Duff, Nora-Jane Noone, Dorothy Duffy. Three young Irish women struggle to maintain their spirits while they endure dehumanizing abuse as inmates of a Magdalene Sisters Asylum.
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- Drama
- Peter Mullan
- 2003-08-29
An unflinching and compelling film depicting a shameful episode in Irish history, The Magdalene Sisters dramatises the experience of women incarcerated in Ireland’s notorious Magdalene Asylums, known as ‘Magdalene Laundries’.
The Magdalene Sisters The Magdalene Sisters , a 2002 film by Peter Mullan, is centred on four young women incarcerated in a Dublin Magdalene laundry from 1964 to 1968. The film is loosely based on and "largely inspired" by the 1998 documentary Sex in a Cold Climate , which documents four survivors' accounts of their experiences in Ireland's Magdalen institutions. [69]
The triumphant story of three extraordinary women whose courage to defy a century of injustice would inspire a nation. While women's liberation sweeps the globe, in 1960s Ireland four "fallen" women are stripped of their liberty and dignity and condemned to indefinite servitude in the Magdalene Laundries, where they'll work to atone for their ...
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Synopsis. The Magdalene Asylums in Ireland were run by the Sisters of Mercy on behalf of the catholic church. Young girls ‘were sent there by families or orphanage and once there, were imprisoned and sent to work in the laundries where they could atone for their sins.
