55 STEPS
by Bille August
synopsis
When patients' rights lawyer Colette Hughes goes to meet her new client, Eleanor Riese, a patient in the psychiatric unit of a San Francisco hospital, she has no idea that besides taking on an uphill legal battle to improve treatment for mental patients in hospitals, she is meeting a woman who will make it her mission to transform Colette's workaholic life.
international title: | 55 Steps |
original title: | Eleanor & Colette |
country: | Germany, Belgium |
sales agent: | Atlas International Film GmbH |
year: | 2017 |
genre: | fiction |
directed by: | Bille August |
film run: | 115' |
screenplay: | Mark Bruce Rosin |
cast: | Helena Bonham Carter, Hilary Swank, Jeffrey Tambor, Tim Plester, Michael Culkin, Jonathan Kerrigan, Richard Laing, Richard Riddell, Anneika Rose, Tim Ahern |
cinematography by: | Filip Zumbrunn |
film editing: | Hansjörg Weißbrich |
art director: | Merijn Sep, Manolito Glas |
costumes designer: | Charlotte Willems |
producer: | Lesley Bruce-Neary, Anita Elsani, Sara Risher, Mark Bruce Rosin |
co-producer: | Philip Borbély, Peter De Maegd, Bastian Griese, Tom Hameeuw |
executive producer: | Mary Aloe, Daniel Grodnik, Michel Vandewalle |
associate producer: | David Claikens, Alex Verbaere |
line producer: | Peter Kreutz, Chris Martin |
production: | Elsani Film, MMC Movies Köln GmbH, Potemkino |
backing: | Screen Flanders |