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UNITED KINGDOM · 1980

Act of God

Peter Greenaway
European Art Cinema lightning strikes survival stories statistics and data death and mortality human resilience
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Synopsis

Documentary film by Peter Greenaway made for Thames Television, in which people who have survived being struck by lightning relate their experiences against a typically Greenaway backdrop of lists, black humour and 'collated statistics'.

Year1980
CountryUnited Kingdom
DirectorPeter Greenaway
MovementEuropean Art Cinema
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