Falling for a Dancer
| Falling For a Dancer | |
|---|---|
| Format | Television movie |
| Directed by | Richard Standeven |
| Produced by | Peter Norris |
| Written by | Deirdre Purcell (Novel and screenplay) |
| Starring | Elisabeth Dermot Walsh |
| Music by | Stephen McKeon |
| Editing by | Kevin Rowley |
| Country | Ireland |
| Language | English |
| Original channel | BBC One |
| Release date | September 13, 1998 |
| Running time | 200 minutes |
| No. of episodes | 4 |
Falling For a Dancer is an Irish 1998 romantic drama television movie set in rural Ireland in the 1930s. It first aired on BBC One in four 50-minute episodes on September 13, 1998.
Plot
Set in 1930`s Cork, nineteen-year-old Elizabeth, has a brief fling with a young actor and dancer and becomes pregnant. With no chance of finding the father,and trying to avoid entering the Magdalene Laundries she chooses to marry an older man who she first meets on her wedding day and moves to her new life in West Cork. The series follows Elizabeth through this marriage and her new life on a farm in West Cork. It is here Elizabeth has her baby but her choice of marriage has its darker side, resentment from her step children, moments of tragedy and a longing for young love and passion that she does not get from her husband, Neilie.
It was filmed in County Cork on the southwest coast
Cast
- Elisabeth Dermot Walsh as Elizabeth
- Dermot Crowley as Neeley Scollard
- Liam Cunningham as Mossie Sheehan
- Rory Murray as George
- Maureen O'Brien as Corinne Sullivan
- Brian McGrath as St. John Sullivan
- Colin Farrell as Daniel McCarthey