Final Act

Story

Synopsis

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...

Director

Edward Fleming

Writers

Noël Coward, Edward Fleming

Language

Danish

Country

Denmark

Release date

23 January 1987

Ensemble

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

• 

  Kirsten Rolffes

• 

  Holger Juul Hansen

• 

  Else Petersen

• 

  Elin Reimer