Richard Standeven
Director
Falling for a Dancer (1998)
Set in rural Ireland of the 1930s, the story begins when 19-year-old Elizabeth has a brief fling with an actor and falls pregnant. Community pressure forces her to marry a dull middle-aged man, but maybe there is hope on the horizon.
Keywords: imdb.young-woman, imdb.pregnancy, imdb.catholicism, imdb.exile, imdb.family-relationships, imdb.marriage-of-convenience, imdb.dancing + 8 more, imdb.actor, imdb.arranged-marriage, imdb.based-on-novel, imdb.dance-scene, imdb.1930s, imdb.rural-setting, imdb.ireland, imdb.illegitimacy
Production Companies: BBC Northern Ireland, RTÉ, Parallel Films
Network: RTÉ One
Country: Ireland
Production Countries:
United Kingdom,
Ireland
Languages:
English
Season 1
4 episodes
RTÉ One
197 min
49 min/ep
Sept. 13, 1998
Oct. 4, 1998, midnight
Ended
NR