The Shell Seekers

The Shell Seekers

The Shell Seekers

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The Shell Seekers

2007

2h 54m

6.9(7 votes)

Drama

Romance

Overview

Penelope Keeling, a sixty-four-year-old daughter of a famous artist, reflects on her life, and the fate and choices that defined it, when she arrives in the Mediterranean to stay with her headstrong daughter. Shifting through time, and falling into place like the pieces of a jigsaw, the truth of Penelope's rich, heartbreaking and surprising life unfolds.

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ZDF

ORF

Tele München

ZDF Enterprises

The people behind it

Cast & crew

10 featured cast members

Starring

Vanessa Redgrave

Vanessa Redgrave

Penelope Keeling

Maximilian Schell

Maximilian Schell

Lawrence Sterne

Charles Edwards

Charles Edwards

Noel Keeling

Prunella Scales

Prunella Scales

Dolly Keeling

Victoria Smurfit

Victoria Smurfit

Olivia Keeling

Victoria Hamilton

Victoria Hamilton

Nancy Chamberlaine

Sebastian Koch

Sebastian Koch

Cosmo König

Stephanie Stumph

Stephanie Stumph

Antonia König

Richard Hope

Richard Hope

George Chamberlaine

Lucas Gregorowicz

Lucas Gregorowicz

Danus Muirfield

Creative team

Directed by: Piers Haggard
Written by: Brian Finch
Produced by: David Cunliffe
Verena von Heeremann

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