Released
Archangel
September 1 1990 (about 34 years ago)Rating
57
Based on
40 reviews
A Tragedy of the Great War
- Director: Guy Maddin
- Writers: Guy Maddin, George Toles
- Genres: War, Romance, Comedy, Drama
- Runtime: 1 h 22 m
- Country: Canada
- Companies: Ordnance Pictures, Cinephile, Winnipeg Film Group, Téléfilm Canada, The Manitoba Arts Council, CIDO, Canada Council for the Arts
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.
