Spoonface Steinberg

Spoonface Steinberg

1998 · 50 min · ★ 8.0 · TV Movie, Drama

Television film version of Lee Hall's award-winning radio play. Spoonface is seven years old, Jewish, autistic - and terminally ill with cancer. As she tries to come to terms with the meaning of life and death, she draws inspiration from the prisoners in the Nazi concentration camps who died with dignity and their spirit unbowed.

Directed by Betsan Morris Evans · Written by Lee Hall

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