Act of God

Act of God (1980)

April 16th, 19800h 27min

TV Movie, Documentary
67%

Overview

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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