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Archangel
- Director: Guy Maddin
- Writer: John B. Harvie; Guy Maddin
- Producer: Andre Bennett; Greg Klymkiw
CGiii Comment
A surrealistic film which will leave you gasping for air - total and absolute rubbish, perhaps...but, you do get that certain feeling that the director already knows that vital piece of information and just carries on regardless.
Maddin seems to make films for fun and there can be no better way in having a good time.
Bizarre - and, funny for those who get the joke.
Trailer...
The(ir) Blurb...
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.
Cast & Characters
Michael Gottli as Jannings;
David Falkenburg as Geza;
Michael O'Sullivan as Doctor;
Margaret Anne MacLeod as Baba;
Ari Cohen as Philbin;
Sarah Neville as Danchuk;
Kathy Marykuca as Veronkha;
Kyle McCulloch as Lt. John Boles;
Victor Cowie as Sea Captain;
Ihor Procak as Monk;
Robert Lougheed as Kaiser Wilhelm II;
Stephen Snyder as Stage Kaiser;
Michael Powell as Red Cross Nurse;
Sam Toles as Young Philbin;
Lloyd Weinberg as Priest