Released Date:
1988-04-15
Languages:
Icelandic, English
Countries:
Canada
Runtime:
72 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.8 (992 Reviews)
Director:
Guy MaddinWhile their mother is dying in the modern Gimli, Manitoba hospital, two young children are told a tale by their Icelandic grandmother about Einar the Lonely, his friend Gunnar, and the angelic Snjofridur in a Gimli of old.
Released Date:
1990-09-01
Languages:
English
Countries:
Canada
Runtime:
90 min
IMDB Ratings:
6.8 (852 Reviews)
Director:
Guy MaddinJohn B. Harvie (story)
Guy Maddin (screenplay)
George Toles (screenplay)
Lt. John Boles, a one-legged soldier, is assisting the White Russians in the Russian Arctic during World War I. He finds himself in Archangel, a crystalline city of spires and domes, inhabited by some very confused people. Boles loves Iris, who is dead, and meets Veronkha, whom he mistakes for Iris. But Veronkha is already married to Philbin, who forgets he is married to Veronkha. Veronkha thinks Boles is Philbin...
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