Anazapta (2001)
Director: Alberto Sciamma
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
It's hard to fathom just what the makers of this low budget British film were thinking, since - for all its pillage, pustules and Lena Headey in a chastity belt - this mud-splattered revenge drama, set in plague-threatened 1348 England, doesn't deliver as an exploitation movie, and is nowhere near sophisticated enough to pass as anything else. Ian McNeice evidently does a very nice line in corpulently corrupt prelates, but there has to be something wrong with a film where the body sores are the highlight.Author: TJ
Cast & crew
Director: Alberto Sciamma
Producer: Jason Piette, Michael Lionello Cowan, David Ball
Cast: Lena Headey, David La Haye, Jason Flemyng, Christopher Fairbank, Anthony O'Donnell, Jeff Nuttall, Ralph Riach, Stevan Rimkus, Hayley Carmichael, Ian McNeice, Jon Finch full cast
Duration: 114 mins
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