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Absolution

One man, two boys... one deadly game.

1978 · R · 1h 35m

Directed by Anthony Page

6.5

TMDB audience score
51 votes, out of 10

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Synopsis

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.

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Cast

  • Richard Burton
    Father Goddard

  • Dominic Guard
    Benjamin 'Benjie' Stanfield

  • David Bradley
    Arthur Dyson

  • Billy Connolly
    Blakey

  • Andrew Keir
    Headmaster

  • Willoughby Gray
    Brigadier Walsh

  • Preston Lockwood
    Father Hibbert

  • James Ottaway
    Father Matthews

  • Brook Williams
    Father Clarence

  • Robin Soans
    Father Henryson

  • Trevor Martin
    Mr. Gladstone

  • Sharon Duce
    Louella

  • Brian Glover
    the first policeman

  • Dan Meaden
    the second policeman

  • Hilary Mason
    Miss Froggatt

  • Hilda Fenemore
    Mrs. Hoskins

  • Robert Addie
    Cawley

  • Philip Leake
    Gregory