What if the Gunpowder Plot was a psychological chess match, not just fireworks?
Acting
Anton Lesser's Cecil is quietly terrifying
Writing
McGovern turns history into moral quicksand
Director
Malcolm McKay
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
McGovern wrote this during the Troubles, making the Catholic/Protestant tension uncomfortably contemporary.
Filmed in a real prison cell at Lancaster Castle, which held Gunpowder Plot prisoners in 1605.
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