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Final Act

Jan 23, 1987
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Comedy

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FINAL ACT is based on Noel Coward's play "Waiting in the Wings". Even the smallest events turn into mind-blowing dramas at The Set, a retirement home for former actresses in England. Jealousy and madness flare into a firework display of toxicity when ex-primadonna Lotta Henderson (Birgitte Federspiel) moves in. A slap in the face of The Set's leading star in her own eyes, May Davenport (Mime Fønss), who has had a lifelong rivalry with Lotta both on stage and off. The daily dramas reach dizzying heights when a scandalous journalist (Anne Marie Helger) gains access like a wolf in sheep's clothing. A stunt that has a not-so-clever connection to the ladies' burning desire to be granted a veranda. The matter is raised to the highest level of the home's tough board of directors, and The Set's secretary Perry (Holger Juul Hansen) comes under justified suspicion of skulduggery. But this is where May Davenport's diva talent comes in as a sure trump card...

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CAST

Erni Arneson
Bonnie Belgraves
Jytte Breuning
Cora Clarke
Lily Broberg
Molly
Ole Dupont
Plejer
Birgitte Federspiel
Lotta Henderson
Mime Fønss
May Davenport
Vera Gebuhr
Maggie
Gerda Gilboe
Maudie Melrose
Directed by Edward Fleming

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Status
Released
Original language
DA
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Production
Nordisk Film Denmark
Country
DK
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