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Mary Shelley

Mary Shelley

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Mary Shelley

"Her greatest love inspired her darkest creation"

2017

2h 0m

7.0(1066 votes)

Romance

Drama

Overview

The love affair between poet Percy Shelley and Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin resulted in the creation of an immortal novel, “Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus.”

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Production Companies

HanWay Films

Gidden Media

BFI

Bac Cinema

Fís Éireann/Screen Ireland

Film Fund Luxembourg

Head Gear Films

Metrol Technology

The people behind it

Cast & crew

10 featured cast members

Starring

Elle Fanning

Elle Fanning

Mary Shelley

Douglas Booth

Douglas Booth

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Bel Powley

Bel Powley

Claire Clairmont

Stephen Dillane

Stephen Dillane

William Godwin

Joanne Froggatt

Joanne Froggatt

Mary Jane Clairmont

Tom Sturridge

Tom Sturridge

Lord Byron

Ben Hardy

Ben Hardy

Dr. John Polidori

Maisie Williams

Maisie Williams

Isabel Baxter

Hugh O'Conor

Hugh O'Conor

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Ciara Charteris

Harriet Shelley

Creative team

Directed by: Haifaa al-Mansour
Written by: Emma Jensen
Haifaa al-Mansour
Produced by: Alan Moloney
Ruth Coady

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