Archangel

Sep 1, 1990

1h 22m

★ 5.6

A Tragedy of the Great War

Overview

At the height of the October Revolution during the 1919 allied intervention in Arkhangelsk, the exploits of one-legged Canadian soldier Lt. John Boles are told, after he is taken in from the cold by a dysfunctional Russian family and mistakes a local woman for his presumed dead lover.

Genres

War

Romance

Drama

Production Companies

Ordnance Pictures

Cinephile

Winnipeg Film Group

Téléfilm Canada

The Manitoba Arts Council

CIDO

Canada Council for the Arts

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Cast

Jannings

Michael Gottli

Geza

David Falkenburg

Doctor

Michael O'Sullivan

Baba

Margaret Anne MacLeod

Philbin

Ari Cohen

Danchuk

Sarah Neville

Veronkha

Kathy Marykuca

Lt. John Boles

Kyle McCulloch

Sea Captain

Victor Cowie

Monk

Ihor Procak

Russian Soldier

Chris Johnson

Bolshevik

Vince Rimmer

As she keeps watching old home movies isolated in her hotel room, the screen becomes a mirror from which she tries to see herself. Levels of subjectivity, narrative, and reality entwine into a surrealist fever dream of scopophilic cinéma pur. The final layer of meaning is all of us watching the film on the screen-mirror in the theatre.

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