Archangel

Archangel

1990 · 82 min · EN · PG-13 · 5.5 (53 votes)
Dir. Guy Maddin · Starring Michael Gottli, David Falkenburg, Michael O'Sullivan, Margaret Anne MacLeod, Ari Cohen, Sarah Neville

“A Tragedy of the Great War”

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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.

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A disorienting, dreamlike journey through a revolution-scarred landscape. Its silent, black-and-white surrealism evokes a profound sense of displacement and existential searching, like a half-remembered dream.

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