Sara Kestelman

Acting

Sara Kestelman

Born 1944-05-12 · London, England, UK

Acting credits

The Physician II poster
6.7

1050 AD: Robert Cole returns to England to bring the medical light of the Orient to his countrymen. But he fails because of the intrigues of the established London doctors, who feel threatened by the new knowledge. And it is not only the human body that is full of seemingly impenetrable secrets, the soul also holds its own mysteries.

The Physician II

2025

Zardoz poster
5.9

In the far future, a savage trained only to kill finds a way into the community of bored immortals that alone preserves humanity's achievements.

Zardoz

1974

Cabaret poster
8.1

Inside the Kit Kat Club in 1931 Berlin, starry-eyed singer Sally Bowles and the lewd Emcee sound the clarion call to decadence, while outside, the Nazi party grows into a brutal force. (Filmed live during the 1993 revival, Sam Mendes' directorial debut takes place at the Donmar Warehouse in London's West End.)

Cabaret

1993

Brazen Hussies poster
3.8

After meeting her old school friend Sandra Delaney, who now works as a stripper, pub owner Maureen Hardcastle decides to spice up her flagging business by turning it into a male stripper club, with the help of untrustworthy businessman Billy Bowman.

Brazen Hussies

1996

No artwork available
NR

Mike’s interest in his neighbour Fiona is definitely not reciprocated. But Millie, two doors down, hatches a plan replete with roses and an incontinent cat, that may break the stalemate.

Prick Thy Neighbour

2014

Mind Games poster
6.3

A former nun turned criminal profiler is called in to investigate the horrific ritualistic murders of two middle aged women. Her unorthodox approach means that she has to deal not only with solving a murder but also winning the trust of her sceptical colleagues.

Mind Games

2001

Lisztomania poster
5.8

In the 19th century, Romantic composer/pianist Franz Liszt tries to end his hedonistic ways but keeps getting sucked back in by his seductive fellow composer Richard Wagner.

Lisztomania

1975

The Last Romantics poster
NR

A semi-fictionalized account of the life of writer F.R. Leavis, his mentor Arthur Quiller Couch, and Leavis's own students at Cambridge University.

The Last Romantics

1992

Peer Gynt poster
9.0

The 1972 BBC adaptation of Ibsen’s epic dramatic fantasy about a man in search of his soul.

Peer Gynt

1972

The War That Never Ends poster
5.0

The Peloponnesian Wars (Athens versus Sparta for twenty-seven years) told in the format of news broadcast-like monologues by Theucydides, Plato, and others.

The War That Never Ends

1991

One Last Dance poster
NR

One Last Dance is a story about the texture of memory, lost love and the haunting intimacy of a dance.

One Last Dance

2016

Scott Walker: 30 Century Man poster
7.2

A documentary on the influential musician Scott Walker.

Scott Walker: 30 Century Man

2007

Break of Day poster
4.0

Tom Cooper, a married man recently returned from WWI, falls in love with an artist visiting his country town, but he has misgivings after meeting her city friends.

Break of Day

1976

Mrs. Acland's Ghosts poster
9.0

Mr Mockler and Mrs Acland have never met, but gradually Mrs Acland 's ghosts begin to take over Mr Mockler 's life.

Mrs. Acland's Ghosts

1975

No artwork available
NR

As peace settles over Northern Ireland, a former activist talks about the horrors of the campaign and their effect on him.

Confession

1995

The Cafeteria poster
NR

An eccentric Jewish writer is drawn into the world of an apparantly delusional young woman and her invalid father

The Cafeteria

1974

The Dybbuk: Semi-Staged Reading poster
NR

On the day of her wedding, Leah is possessed by a dybbuk – the spirit of her former lover who died after learning of her engagement to another man. Set in the vanished, mystically religious world of 19th-century Eastern European Hasidism, S. Ansky’s The Dybbuk is a complex and meticulously crafted tragedy in which two lovers, betrothed before birth and denied earthly communion, are ultimately bound together for all eternity. This semi-staged reading took take place at the Almeida, as part of Six Artists in Search of a Play.

The Dybbuk: Semi-Staged Reading

2021

The Hindenburg Disaster: Probable Cause poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

The Hindenburg Disaster: Probable Cause

2001

Ex Memoria poster
NR

A film about memory, loss and survival; Eva Lipszyc is a survivor, but she is now locked away in the twilight world of Alzheimer's disease. We see the world from her point of view, at her eye level, and we see how a chance encounter with a caring young nurse breaks through the barrier

Ex Memoria

2006

No artwork available
NR

Two down-on-their-luck American brothers travel to England to sell their late grandfather's country estate. A straightforward plan if it weren't for the strangers in the house and the sinister man on their tail.

The Last Sparks of Sundown

2014

No artwork available
NR

Teenagers Sarah and Debbie run away from home and find themselves on the streets of London.

Somewhere to Run

1989

Jack Flea's Birthday Celebration poster
NR

David lives with a woman nearly twice his age, who decides to make him her fantasy child. It is a role our young hero cannot resist, especially when David's parents come to dinner and he reads an extract from a story he has written...

Jack Flea's Birthday Celebration

1976

A Walk in the Forest poster
NR

A writer gets involved with a Soviet dissident.

A Walk in the Forest

1980

The Old Woman Who Hid Her Fear Under the Stairs poster
NR

A woman's unique method of coping with fear becomes a liability when someone else's attention unnerves her.

The Old Woman Who Hid Her Fear Under the Stairs

2018