Sex in a Cold Climate (1998)

Name: Sex in a Cold Climate
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1998-03-16

52m

Running Time

March 16, 1998
Release Date

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Plot.

Interlocking interviews of 4 women interred in various Magdalene asylums and/or orphanages because of out-of-wedlock pregnancies, being sexually assaulted, or just being "too pretty".

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Cast & Crew.

Dervla Kirwan

Self - Narrator (voice)

Steve Humphries

Director

Andy Attenburrow

Editor

Paul Zanders

Sound Recordist

Details.

Release Date
March 16, 1998

Status
Released

Running Time
52m

This Movie Is About.

child abuse

sexual abuse

catholic church

catholicism

slave labor

power abuse

priest abuse

magdalene asylum

Wiki.

Sex in a Cold Climate is a 1998 Irish documentary film detailing the mistreatment of "fallen women" in the Magdalene laundries in Ireland. It was produced and directed by Steve Humphries and narrated by Dervla Kirwan. It was used as a source for the 2002 film, The Magdalene Sisters.

The film was produced by Testimony Films and aired on Channel 4 in March 1998.