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Anchoress

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IMDB ID: tt0106271

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A 14th-century peasant becomes transfixed by a statue of the Virgin Mary, and petitions to be walled into a cell attached to the church as a religious hermit.

English

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Natalie Morse

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Gene Bervoets

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Toyah Willcox

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Pete Postlethwaite

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Christopher Eccleston

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Michaël Pas

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Julie T. Wallace

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Annette Badland

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Brenda Bertin

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Veronica Quilligan

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Chris Newby

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Christine Watkins

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Judith Stanley-Smith

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