Winter Solstice

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)

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  Martyn Friend
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  Jo Beckett

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  Sinéad Cusack
  Elfrida Phibbs
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  Jan Niklas
  Oscar Blundell
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  Geraldine Chaplin
  Gloria Blundell
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  Jason Durr
  Sam Howard
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  Sophie Schütt
  Carrie Marchmont
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  Ralf Bauer
  Andreas Mendel
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  Peter Ustinov
  Hughie McLellan
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  Jean Simmons
  Countess Lucinda Rhives
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  Emma Streets
  Francesca 'Fran' Blundell
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  Anna Maguire
  Lucy Marchmont
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  Marsha Fitzalan
  Didi Marchmont
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  John Bird
  Barry
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  Maureen Lipman
  Marcia
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  Gregory Finnegan
  Giles
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  Alastair Bruce
  Rory Kennedy
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  Angus Wright
  Peter Kennedy