Oliver Deuce, a successful doctor, is shattered when his wife is killed in a freak car accident involving the car being driven by Alba Bewick colliding with a very large rare bird. His twin brother Oswald is researching how carcasses decay at the local zoo. Alba survives the accident although she loses one leg, and her sinister physician eventually removes the other ‘because it looked so sad all alone’. Oswald and Oliver become involved in a menage a trois with Alba, and uncover very dubious trafficking in zoo property. But ultimately their only goal is to try and understand their mortal condition.

A Zed & Two Noughts (1986)
  • Rating: (3,150 votes)
  • Runtime:115 minutes
  • Director: Peter Greenaway
  • Countries:UK, Netherlands
  • Actors:
    Alba Bewick
    Andréa Ferréol
    Oswald Deuce
    Brian Deacon
    Oliver Deuce
    Eric Deacon
    Venus de Milo
    Frances Barber
    Van Hoyten
    Joss Ackland
    Joshua Plate
    Jim Davidson
    Beta Bewick
    Agnès Brulet
    Caterina Bolnes
    Guusje van Tilborgh
    Van Meegeren
    Gerard Thoolen
    Stephen Pipe
    Ken Campbell
  • Genres:Comedy, Drama
  • Producers:
    Kees Kasander
    producer  
    Peter Sainsbury
    producer  
  • Plots: Oliver Deuce, a successful doctor, is shattered when his wife is killed in a freak car accident involving the car being driven by Alba Bewick colliding with a very large rare bird. His twin brother Oswald is researching how carcasses decay at the local zoo. Alba survives the accident although she loses one leg, and her sinister physician eventually removes the other 'because it looked so sad all alone'. Oswald and Oliver become involved in a menage a trois with Alba, and uncover very dubious trafficking in zoo property. But ultimately their only goal is to try and understand their mortal condition. Written by Dan Ellis
A Zed & Two Noughts
  • User's comment:"In the land of the leg-less, the one-leg woman is queen" by Happy-25

    Two zoologist twin brothers lose each of their wives in a freak car crash involving an escaped swan from the zoo. They become obsessed with understanding death, and the creation of life. They study decaying objects, creation films, and trifling details of the accident & the days events that led to the crash. They seek answers with the zoo's prostitute and the one-legged woman (who is the sole survivor of the car crash).

    Beautiful scenes, and memorizing music.

    The first time I saw this film I was screening it for the staff at my theatre. Everyone but me left to see something else. I could not take my eyes off of the screen. It was amazing. This film may sound a little morbid, but it is about two people dealing with death in his own way. Maybe I liked it so much because I too recently lost some loved ones just prior to seeing this film. I have seen it numerous times since, and I even bought the tape.

    Do NOT miss this film!


  • Quotes: Alba Bewick: In the land of the legless the one-legged woman is queen. Alba Bewick: Imagine that, the body - in all its delicious detail - fading away leaving a skeleton with iron legs. Oswald Deuce: How fast does a woman decompose?
  • Also known as: Zoo (Argentina), Zoo (Chile - promotional title), Zoo (Denmark - imdb display title), Zoo (Finland), Zoo (France), Ein Z und zwei Nullen (West Germany), Ena zita kai dyo midenika (Greece - transliterated ISO-LATIN-1 title), Lo zoo di Venere (Italy), Um Z e Dois Zeros (Portugal - imdb display title), Una Zeta y dos Ceros (Uruguay - alternative transliteration), Z és két nulla (Hungary), Zet i dwa zera (Poland), Zoo - Um Z & Dois Zeros (Brazil), z00 (Uruguay - alternative title),

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