Winter Solstice

Overview

When Elfrida Philips abandons London for a country village, she settles in quickly. She is very poor, but has a tiny cottage, her four-legged friend Horace, and friendships of good neighbors. Tragedy upsets her newfound tranquillity, and she takes refuge in a rambling house with a new gentleman friend in Corrydale. But the group proves to be greater than the sum of its ill-fitting parts, and as the solstice passes, and as Christmas approaches, the healing power of love, begins to work its magic. (Filmed at Dunrobin Castle, Golspie, Sutherland)

Directed by Martyn Friend

Top cast

Sinéad Cusack

Elfrida Phibbs

Jan Niklas

Oscar Blundell

Geraldine Chaplin

Gloria Blundell

Jason Durr

Sam Howard

Sophie Schütt

Carrie Marchmont

Ralf Bauer

Andreas Mendel

Peter Ustinov

Hughie McLellan

Jean Simmons

Countess Lucinda Rhives

E

Emma Streets

Francesca 'Fran' Blundell

Anna Maguire

Lucy Marchmont

Marsha Fitzalan

Didi Marchmont

John Bird

Barry

Maureen Lipman

Marcia

Gregory Finnegan

Giles

A

Alastair Bruce

Rory Kennedy

Angus Wright

Peter Kennedy

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