Cast

P
Phillip Mawdsley
as Robert Tucker
R
Robin Hooper
as Robert Tucker (aged 23)
N
Nick Stringer
as Father
V
Valerie Lilley
as Mother
L
Linda Beckett
as Neighbour
C
Colin Hignet
as Bully
R
Robin Bowen
as Bully 2
T
Trevor Eve
as Man in Shower
E
Elizabeth Estensen
as Nurse
H
Harry Wright
as Teacher
P
Phillip Joseph
as 2nd Teacher
K
Kate Fahy
as Neighbour
M
Marjorie Rowlandson
as Neighbour
B
Bill Maxwell
as Doctor
M
Malcolm Hughes
as Man in Bedroom
A
Ann Kiesler

Crew

T
Terence Davies
Director
W
William Diver
Cinematography
T
Terence Davies
Writer
D
Digby Rumsey
Editor
S
Sarah Ellis
Editor
R
Rick Thomas
Production Assistant
D
Dave Wheeler
Assistant Director
D
Digby Rumsey
Sound Recordist

The Terence Davies Trilogy

A trilogy of short films tell the life of Robert Tucker. "Children" (1976) looks at his birth and formative at an austere boy's school. The bleak environment is not aided by the loveless, violent domestic life he experiences. Nonetheless, his father's death has a major impact on him. In "Madonna and Child" (1980), he is a closeted homosexual working in a grim office and still living at home with his daunting mother. In the final entry, "Death and Transfiguration" (1983), he deals with his mother's death and then faces his own impending doom.