Retirement Home

Dec 28, 2017

1h 34m

★ 10.0

The passions and pains of a group of elders, sharing the same building, every weekday.

Overview

A group of elders spends their weekdays in a retirement home in Sandim, in the north of Portugal, where they talk, do arts and crafts, practice yoga and pray. We follow them between October 2012 and March 2013, when an economic crisis overshadowed Portuguese society and unemployment rates reached record levels. Meanwhile, arrangements are made for the Carnival ball. Will they bring the first place home this time?

Genres

Documentary

Production Companies

Bruma Filmes

Retirement Home Trailers

Cast

Artur Cardoso

Isilda dos Santos

Alice Almeida

José Moreira

Filomena Oliveira

Georgina Maia

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Retirement Home

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