Quirke (2013) - 2-DVD Set

Quirke (2013) - 2-DVD Set (DVD) (*)

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Language Selections:
Dutch ( Subtitles )
English ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )

Product Origin/Format:
Netherlands ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
266 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
2-DVD Set
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 2013 and produced in:
Ireland ( Great Britain, Ireland )
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
John Alexander

Written By:
John Alexander

Actors:
Gabriel Byrne ..... Quirke (3 episodes, 2014)
Nick Dunning ..... Malachy Griffin (3 episodes, 2014)
Brian Gleeson ..... Sinclair (3 episodes, 2014)
Aisling Franciosi ..... Phoebe Griffin (3 episodes, 2014)
Stanley Townsend ..... Inspector Hackett (3 episodes, 2014)
Michael Gambon ..... Judge Garret Griffin (3 episodes, 2014)
Geraldine Somerville ..... Sarah Griffin (2 episodes, 2014)
Frank O'Sullivan ..... Davy (2 episodes, 2014)
Sara Stewart ..... Rose Crawford (2 episodes, 2014)

Synopsis:

Gabriel Byrne plays the eponymous Irish pathologist-cum-sleuth in this three-part BBC adaptation based on the novels by John Banville. While fulfilling his duties as chief pathologist at the Dublin City Morgue during the 1950s, the insular and surly Quirke (Byrne) ploughs a lonely course, managing his depression by haunting Dublin's dank alleyways and bars. But when he begins to notice inconsistencies during routine examinations, Quirke's natural inquisitiveness to find out the truth soon leads him on a tour of Dublin's less salubrious areas, where he faces unresolved issues from his own past that would be better left undisturbed.

Season 1
Christine Falls S1, Ep1 16 Feb. 2014
Quirke, a pathologist in 1950s Dublin, is perturbed when his strait-laced adoptive brother Malachy, an obstetrician, appears to be tampering with evidence relating to the recently deceased Christine Falls. Officially she died of an embolism but Malachy admits that she died giving birth to a still-born child and evidence was changed to spare her reputation. Soon afterwards Dolly Moran, a friend of Christine who told Quirke she has information about the baby's father is murdered and a child brought from Ireland to Boston, Massachusetts, is adopted by Claire and Andy ...
The Silver Swan S1, Ep2 23 Feb. 2014
Mal is still angry with Quirke for revealing Phoebe's true paternity and blames him for her quitting medical school to work in a hat shop. Here she meets louche Leslie White, manager of the Silver Swan beauty salon who is having an affair with Deirdre, wife of pharmaceutical rep Billy Hunt, a former student of Quirke. Deirdre is addicted to tranquillizers in return for which she agrees to pose for nude photos which White uses to blackmail her. At the same time Quirke deals with the suicide of housewife Geraldine Millican, who like Deirdre posed nude to get her tablets...
Elegy for April S1, Ep3 2 Mar. 2014
Phoebe is worried that she has not seen her friend April Latimer for some weeks and persuades Quirke, still coming to terms with Sarah's death, to help find her. April's brother Oscar, a doctor, tells them that April's wild behaviour has caused her estrangement from the family for some years and indeed neither her icy widowed mother Celia or her uncle Bill, a government minister, seem especially concerned. Quirke learns that April had a visit from another doctor Patrick Ojukwu, whom, it was assumed, was one of the many men in her life but blood stains at her flat lead...

A chief pathologist in the Dublin city morgue investigates sudden death victims in the 1950s.

This product was added to our catalog on Friday 01 August, 2014.