Absolution
Absolution
Release: 1978-06-05
·Runtime: 95m
·★ 6.4
Drama
Thriller
Mystery
At a Catholic boys' school, domineering disciplinarian Father Goddard rules over his pupils with an iron hand. When one of his teenage charges confesses to murder, the dogmatic but deeply repressed Goddard finds his faith challenged and his life spiralling dangerously out of control.
Production Countries
United Kingdom
Production Companies
Bulldog
Enterprise Pictures
Trans World Entertainment
Cast
Dominic Guard
as Benjamin 'Benjie' Stanfield
Billy Connolly
as Blakey
Richard Burton
as Father Goddard
David Bradley
as Arthur Dyson
Andrew Keir
as Headmaster
Robin Soans
as Father Henryson
Sharon Duce
as Louella
Brian Glover
as the first policeman
Robert Addie
as Cawley
Willoughby Gray
as Brigadier Walsh
Julian Firth
as a boy
Hilary Mason
as Miss Froggatt
