Characters & Themes
Transmutations (1985) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1985 · 92 mins · English
- Directed by
- George Pavlou
- Starring
- Miranda Richardson, Denholm Elliott, Gary Olsen, Mathew Zajac, Art Malik, Phil Davis
An illicit experiment fuels a criminal empire that covets a mysterious white powder. When high‑class escort Nicole is kidnapped from her brothel, wealthy businessman Hugo Motherskille hires her former lover Roy Bain to rescue her. Bain’s search leads to Dr. Savary, creator of the powder, and a race of deformed humans living in the city’s sewer underworld.
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