

17/12/1975
O filme é uma adaptação da autobiografia de Quentin Crisp, um verdadeiro ícone gay da Inglaterra no século vinte, um homem que enfrentou com extraordinaria coragem o preconceito e as perseguições ao longo de décadas, sempre com inteligência e senso de humor. O filme é estrelado por John Hurt. Crisp era um pária mesmo entre os gays. Era efeminado, afeminado e não fazia questão alguma de esconder isso. Pelo contrário, dizia que essa era a sua "contribuição para a causa", décadas antes de se falar de "visibilidade gay". Foi um homem muito a frente de seu tempo, que jamais abdicou de seu direito de ser e de existir, ainda que tenha sofrido por conta disso. Ele foi um transgressor, no melhor sentido da palavra, e isso numa época em que a homossexualidade ainda dava cadeia na Inglaterra.

John Hurt
as Quentin Crisp

Quentin Crisp
as Himself

John Rhys-Davies
as Barndoor

Colin Higgins
as Thumbnails

Liz Gebhardt
as Art Student

Patricia Hodge
as Ballet Teacher

Stanley Lebor
as Mr. Pole

Katherine Schofield
as Mrs. Pole

Antonia Pemberton
as Mrs Longhurst

Stephen Johnstone
as Young Quentin

Lloyd Lamble
as Mr. Crisp

Shane Briant
as Norma

Roger Lloyd Pack
as Liz

Phil Daniels
as 1st Boy

Richard Butler
as Senior Doctor

Joan Ryan
as Mrs Crisp

Frank Forsyth
as Family Doctor

Ron Pember
as Black Cat Proprietor

Derek West
as Freda

David Fielder
as June

Dennis Chinnery
as Business Man

John Flanagan
as 1st Policeman

David Goodland
as 2nd Policeman

Dennis Blanch
as 1st Rough

Billy Colvill
as 2nd Rough

Anthony Heaton
as Quentin's Rough

Richie Stewart
as Bus Conductor

Jiggy Bhore
as Receptionist

Graham Armitage
as Mr Dunsmore

James Marcus
as Clerkenwell Tough

John Malcolm
as Taxi Driver

Michael Bangerter
as Club Manager

Julian Fox
as 1st Dancer

Barry McGinn
as 2nd Dancer

Jan Chappell
as Neurotic Girl

John Forbes-Robertson
as Civil Servant

Frederick Treves
as Detective-Inspector

Adrian Shergold
as Gloria

Anthony Howard
as Lord Alcohol

Annette Badland
as Tap Dancing Pupil

Anna Wing
as Old Lady

Dominic Allan
as Army Sergeant

John Crocker
as Army Doctor

John Cater
as Psychiatrist

Harvey Ashby
as Actor

Don Fellows
as 1st GI

Bob Sherman
as 2nd GI

Susan Wooldridge
as Model

Christopher Coll
as Art Master

Peter Sproule
as 1st Plain Clothes Man

Robert Gary
as 2nd Plain Clothes Man

Charles Pemberton
as Court PC

David Trevena
as Clerk

Martin Boddey
as Magistrate

Ernest C. Jennings
as Court Attendant

Raymond Boal
as 2nd Boy
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