Paul Reisner (Clive Owen) begins to suspect that the work being carried out by his mentor and teacher Professor Mandry (Charles Dance) is taking an increasingly dark turn. Written and Directed by Stephen Poliakoff.Ĭentury is the second film that Poliakoff made with a young Clive Owen following the success of Close My Eyes. A period story, set in the last moments of the nineteenth Century and the first of the twentieth, it traces the story of a young doctor coming to London to begin a career in medical research.
