Project Detail

Coombs

Synopsis

Tom and Gertrude have been married for sixty six years. In the stillness of Nairnshire they live a life of routine pleasures. A lucid, sometimes funny, and profoundly compassionate study of extreme old age, death, grief and loneliness. This beautifully shot documentary is a portrait of old age passing by...

Details

Year
2017
Type of project
Shorts
Running time
57 min
Format
HDV
Director
Karel Dolak
Producer
Irune Gurtubai
Executive Producer
Sarah Mackintosh
Editor
Karel Dolak
Director of Photography
Alastair Mackintosh
Sound
Pete Smith
Composer
DW Robertson
Principal cast
Dr. Thomas Coombs, Mrs Gertrude Coombs

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Production Status

Production Company

Crystalness Films

Screen Academy Scotland

Sales Company

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