The Falls (1980)

Directors

Peter Greenaway

Cast

Peter Westley, Aad Wirtz, Michael Murray, Lorna Poulter, Patricia Carr, Adam Leys, Mary Howard, Sheila Canfield, Evelyn Owen, Hilary Thompson, Carole Meyer, Monica Hyde, Colleen Thomas, Neil Hopkins, Dewi Thomas, Peter Sacro, Keith Pendlebury, Robert Worby, Marcia Pendlebury, Stephen Quay, Timothy Quay, Tom Hunsinger, Martin Burrows, Maggie Palmer, Adejbo Nkasaggi, Maurice Tarlin, Patrick Whitney, Alicia Webb, Sandra Williams, Garry Morris, Richard Jenkins, Serena MacBeth, John Wilson, Leslie Wilson, Gabor Vernon, Rod Stoneman, Howard Milner, Aet Nyman, Teet Toome, Reeta Toome, Alfret Toome, Martin Pawky, Jeremy Tarling, Graham Jones, Chris Auty, Glyn Fielding, Chris Rodriquez, John Lea, Alice Skillings, Michelle Caborn, Simon Fea, Kenneth Breese, Edith Lazenby, Nigel Algar, Lucy Finch, Donald Lazenby, Terry Lansbury, Freida Jones, Pat Hopkins, Peter Sainsbury, Ian Lake, David Cowper, Sarah Cowper, Lucy Skeaping, Herbert Mullinger, Christine Metcalfe, Christopher Metcalfe, Lilian Mullinger, Marion Brame, Wendy Evans, Bob Godfrey, Mick O'Connor, Reina James, Chris Thomas, Alderich Asonbryl, Dorothy Bradley, Udi Eichler, Cathy Lake, Dave Lawton, Brigitte Kahn, Glennys Williams, John Hyde, Christopher Williams, Gillian Tarlin, Russel Flint, J.J. Czipri, Lucia Apel, Molly Nyman, Rachel Penfold, Simon De Quincey, Peter Greenaway, Colin Haap, Colin Berwick, Anthony Sloman, Peter Nage, Colin Cantlie

The story

The world has been struck by a mysterious incident called the "Violent Unknown Event" or VUE, which has killed many people and left a great many survivors suffering from a common set of symptoms: mysterious ailments (some appearing to be mutations of evolving into a bird-like form), dreaming of water (categorised by form, such as Category 1, Flight, or Category 3, Waves) and becoming obsessed with birds and flight. Many of the survivors have been gifted with new languages. They have also stopped ageing, making them immortal (barring disease or injury).

Genres

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