Madonna and Child

Madonna and Child (1980)Cast and Crew

Movie

Cast

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Terry O'Sullivan
as Robert Tucker
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Sheila Raynor
as Robert's mother
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Paul Barber
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John Meynell
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Brian Ward
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Dave Cooper
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Mark Walton
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Mal Jefferson
L
Lovette Edwards
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Rita Thatchery
E
Eddie Ross

Crew

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Terence Davies
Director
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Terence Davies
Writer
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William Diver
Cinematography
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Mick Audsley
Editor
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Kees Ryninks
Assistant Director
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Antoinette de Bromhead
Sound Recordist
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Tim Rolt
Grip

The Terence Davies Trilogy

A trilogy of short films tell the life of Robert Tucker. "Children" (1976) looks at his birth and formative at an austere boy's school. The bleak environment is not aided by the loveless, violent domestic life he experiences. Nonetheless, his father's death has a major impact on him. In "Madonna and Child" (1980), he is a closeted homosexual working in a grim office and still living at home with his daunting mother. In the final entry, "Death and Transfiguration" (1983), he deals with his mother's death and then faces his own impending doom.