Tales from the Gimli Hospital

Apr 15, 1988

1h 4m

★ 5.8

It all happened in a Gimli we no longer know.

Overview

While their mother is dying in the modern Gimli, Manitoba hospital, two young children are told an important tale by their Icelandic grandmother about Einar the lonely, his friend Gunnar, and the angelic Snjofrieder in a Gimli of old.

Genres

Comedy

Horror

Production Companies

Extra Large Productions

CIDO

Winnipeg Film Group

Tales from the Gimli Hospital Trailers

Cast

Einar the Lonely / Minstrel

Kyle McCulloch

Gunnar

Michael Gottli

Snjófridur

Angela Heck

Amma

Margaret Anne MacLeod

Granddaughter

Heather Neale

Grandson

David Neale

John Ramsay

Don Hewak

Pastor Osbaldison / Patient

Ron Eyolfson

Lord Dufferin

Chris Johnson

Fish Princess

Donna Szöke

Gunnar's Strolling Companion / Gimli Maiden

Tiffany Taylor

Dying Mother

Linda Schinkel

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