The Shell Seekers (2007)
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.
- Date of release
- 2007-10-18
- TMDB
- 6.9 / 10 (7)
- Runtime
- 2h 54m
- Genres
- Drama, Romance
- Director
- Piers Haggard
Casting
- Vanessa Redgrave — Penelope Keeling
- Maximilian Schell — Lawrence Sterne
- Charles Edwards — Noel Keeling
- Prunella Scales — Dolly Keeling
- Victoria Smurfit — Olivia Keeling
- Victoria Hamilton — Nancy Chamberlaine
- Sebastian Koch — Cosmo König
- Stephanie Stumph — Antonia König
- Richard Hope — George Chamberlaine
- Lucas Gregorowicz — Danus Muirfield
- Maisie Dimbleby — Young Penelope
- Toby Fisher — Ambrose Keeling
Interesting facts
- Filmed in: London
The Shell Seekers is a 2006 mini-series starring Academy Award-winners, Vanessa Redgrave and Maximilian Schell. The British-German co-production was directed by Piers Haggard. It is an adaptation of Rosamunde Pilcher's 1987 novel of the same name and premiered on Germany's ZDF on 25 December 2006. It was screened in the United States on the Hallmark Channel on 3 May 2008.
Production
The mini-series was shot in 2005 in a range of locations such as Cornwall, London and Wales.
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