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A Zed & Two Noughts is a British film of genre Drama directed by Peter Greenaway released in USA on 25 may 1990 with Andréa Ferréol

A Zed & Two Noughts (1985)

A Zed and Two Noughts

A Zed & Two Noughts
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Released in USA 25 may 1990
Length 1h55
Directed by
Genres Drama,    Comedy,    Comedy-drama
Rating71% 3.596813.596813.596813.596813.59681

A Zed & Two Noughts is a 1985 film written and directed by Peter Greenaway. This film was Greenaway's first with cinematography by Sacha Vierny, who went on to shoot virtually all of Greenaway's work in the 1980s and 1990s, until Vierny's death; Greenaway referred to Vierny as his "most important collaborator".

Synopsis

Twin zoologists Oswald and Oliver Deuce (Brian Deacon and Eric Deacon) are at work studying the behaviour of animals at a zoo, when their wives are killed in a car accident involving a large swan. The woman who was driving the car, Alba Bewick (Andréa Ferréol), is not killed, but has a leg amputated.

Actors

Andréa Ferréol

(Alba Bewick)Brian Deacon

(Oswald Deuce)Eric Deacon

(Oliver Deuce)Frances Barber

(Venus de Milo)Joss Ackland

(Van Hoyten)
And :
Geoffrey Palmer
Jim Davidson
Wolf Kähler
Ken Campbell
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