Movie: The Periwig-Maker

Top 4 Billed Cast

Kenneth Branagh
Kenneth Branagh

Periwig-maker (voice)

Daren C. Evans
Daren C. Evans

Alice Fairhall
Alice Fairhall

Roger Law
Roger Law

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    Europe; the plague years. A wigmaker, locked in his shop, observes the events and writes about them in his journal. Mostly, we see shrouded bodies, and a young girl who lives in the tavern across the way that gets progressively sicker.

  • Release Date

    1999-11-13

  • Average

    7.5

  • Rating:

    3.8 starts
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    Deutsch
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