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Heart Of The World, The

Genre

Experimental

Directed By

Guy Maddin

Date: Jan 2000
Length: 00:06:00
Process: B&W
Country: Canada
Shooting Format: 35 mm
Sound Format: Music, Silent

Synopsis

The plot of The Heart of the World concerns two brothers, Osip and Nikolai, who compete for the love of the same woman: Anna, a state scientist studying the Earth's core. Anna discovers that the heart of the world is in danger of a fatal heart attack (which would mean the end of the world), and the brothers compete amongst the public panic. Nikolai is a mortician and tries to impress Anna with assembly-line embalming, while Osip is an actor playing Christ in the Passion Play and tries to impress Anna through his suffering. Anna is instead seduced by an evil capitalist, but has a change of heart and strangles the plutocrat, then slides down into the heart of the world, where she manages to save the world from destruction by transforming into cinema itself, the world's "new and better heart — Kino!" (Jonathan Ball)

Tags

absurd, black and white, brothers, cinema, coffins, competition, cross, earth, love triangle, mortician, tragic

Credits

Director
Guy Maddin
Writer
Guy Maddin
Executive Producer
Niv Fichman
Producer
Jody Shapiro, Toronto International Film Festival Group (TIFFG)
Co-Producer
Jennifer Weiss
Director of Photography
Guy Maddin
Co-Camera
Deco Dawson
Co-Editor
Guy Maddin, Deco Dawson
Cast
Leslie Bais, Caelum Vatnsdal, Shaun Balbar, Greg Klymkiw
Music Written By
Georgy Sviridov

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