Archangel
– A surrealistic film in which a strangely assorted group of people come together in the Russian Arcti..
A surrealistic film in which a strangely assorted group of people come together in the Russian Arctic at the height of the revolution and World War One.
01 Sep 1990
English
Guy Maddin
John B. Harvie (story suggestion), Guy Maddin (screenplay), George Toles (screenplay)
Michael Gottli, David Falkenburg, Michael O'Sullivan, Margaret Anne MacLeod
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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