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Act of God
UNITED KINGDOM · 1980

Act of God

Peter Greenaway
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'.

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