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Retirement Home
Retirement Home

Retirement Home

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

Genres

Documentary

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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?

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Budget

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Revenue

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Status

Released

Original Language

Portuguese

Runtime

94 mins

Rating

10/10

Release Date

28 December 2017

Country

Portugal

Cast

Artur Cardoso

Artur Cardoso

Isilda dos Santos

Isilda dos Santos

Alice Almeida

Alice Almeida

José Moreira

José Moreira

Filomena Oliveira

Filomena Oliveira

Georgina Maia

Georgina Maia

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