
Third Act
2019-05-01 · 79 min · Not rated
Third Act is a film about aging. Leo is 80 years old and tours the world with the internationally renowned dance-theatre company Peeping Tom. On stage Leo is condemned to an elderly home crowded by local extras in their third age. But in real life, his wife waits for him - in an elderly home in Belgium. What do you do in the third and last act of your life? And what do the elderly in other countries and cultures do when the curtain is about to fall?
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- Directors
- Lotte Stoops, Mieke Struyve
- Production companies
- Savage Film, Eyeworks, Vlaams Audiovisueel Fonds, Iota Production, Canvas, MEDIA Programme of the European Union
- Countries
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- Status
- Released
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