Act of God

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Act of God

1980

0h 27m

6.7(10 votes)

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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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