Winter Solstice

When Elfrida Philips abandons London for a country village, she settles in quickly. She is very poor, but has a tiny cottage, her four-legged friend Horace, and friendships of good neighbors. Tragedy upsets her newfound tranquillity, and she takes refuge in a rambling house with a new gentleman friend in Corrydale. But the group proves to be greater than the sum of its ill-fitting parts, and as the solstice passes, and as Christmas approaches, the healing power of love, begins to work its magic. (Filmed at Dunrobin Castle, Golspie, Sutherland)

• Release date
• December 25, 2003
• Runtime
• 130 min
• Genres
• Romance, TV Movie
• Director
• Martyn Friend

Cast

Sinéad Cusack Elfrida Phibbs Jan Niklas Oscar Blundell Geraldine Chaplin Gloria Blundell Jason Durr Sam Howard Sophie Schütt Carrie Marchmont Ralf Bauer Andreas Mendel Peter Ustinov Hughie McLellan Jean Simmons Countess Lucinda Rhives