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Ladies in Lavender is a British film of genre Drama directed by Charles Dance released in USA on 14 june 2004 with Judi Dench
Ladies in Lavender (2004)
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Add to a movie listLadies in Lavender is a 2004 English drama film written and directed by Charles Dance, who based his screenplay on a short story by William J. Locke.
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Set in picturesque coastal Cornwall, in a tight-knit fishing village in 1936, Ladies in Lavender stars Judi Dench and Maggie Smith playing the leading roles of sisters Ursula (Dench) and Janet Widdington (Smith). A gifted young Polish violinist from Krakow, Andrea (played by German actor Daniel Brühl) is bound for America when he is swept overboard by a storm. When the Widdington sisters discover the handsome stranger on the beach below their house, they nurse him back to health. However, the presence of the musically talented young man disrupts the peaceful lives of the sisters and the community in which they live.Actors
Judi Dench
(Ursula)
Maggie Smith
(Janet)
Daniel Brühl
(Andrea)
Natascha McElhone
(Olga)
Miriam Margolyes
(Dorcas)
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