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The Oldest People in
the World (2007)
Award-winning filmmaker Daisy Asquith asks some of the oldest people in the world the question everyone wants answered - what is the secret to long life?
Emma Tillman is 114 and the oldest person in the
world. Her enormous family is coming to Connecticut for a party - at
the last count there were 39 great-grandchildren, 17 great
great-grandchildren, 10 great great great-grandchildren and 2 great
great great great-grandchildren. In contrast, 112-year-old Gertrude
Baines in downtown LA is the last surviving member of her family.
In Japan, we meet Tsuru, an active 100-year-old
who runs a small shop and tends her garden in Okinawa, while over in
Portugal, 113-year-old Maria de Jesus has to be wheeled out in a chair
to take the sun in the afternoon. Back in England, we discuss life at
111 with Henry, who is the oldest man in England - he stresses the
importance of having a good sense of humour.
This revealing film journeys across three
continents to give an extraordinary insight into what it's like to have
lived over three centuries.
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