Final Act
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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
21 people
Erni Arneson
Bonnie Belgraves
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Jytte Breuning
Cora Clarke
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Lily Broberg
Molly
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Matador
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Ole Dupont
Plejer
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Birgitte Federspiel
Lotta Henderson
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Babette's Feast
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Mime Fønss
May Davenport
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Vinterbyøster
Livsens ondskab
Vera Gebuhr
Maggie
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Gertrud
Medea
Gerda Gilboe
Maudie Melrose
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Compound interest
Den kyske levemand
Kirsten Rolffes
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The Kingdom
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Holger Juul Hansen
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The Kingdom
Else Petersen
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The Kingdom
Elin Reimer
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Edward Fleming Director · Noël Coward Writer
First release January 23, 1987 · Produced in Denmark · Production Nordisk Film
Production
Nordisk Film Denmark
Production
Nordisk Film
Production
Denmark
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Original title
Sidste akt
Original language
Danish
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Danish
Release dates
Denmark · January 23, 1987
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