In fourteenth-century England, peasant girl Christine Carpenter is so attracted to a statue of the Virgin Mary that the local priest (who lusts after her) suggests she be walled up in the church as an anchoress, a holy woman with responsibility for blessing the villagers. But when the priest has Christines mother tried as a witch, she digs herself out of her cell, a crime for which the punishment is death...
Drama
1995
1 hr 49 min
BFI Player Classics
PG-13
Starring
Pete Postlethwaite, Christopher Eccleston, Natalie Morse