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Tales from the Gimli Hospital

Genre

Narrative-Fiction

Directed By

Guy Maddin

Date: Jan 1988
Length: 01:10:00
Process: B&W
Country: Canada
Language: English

Synopsis

Perhaps the most popular movie ever made in Manitoba, this dreamlike cult film is set during a smallpox epidemic in Gimli, Manitoba near the turn of the century. Gunnar and Einar, are two men who share madness, jealousy, smallpox and a small room in the Gimli Hospital. Trouble lurks because each carries a dark secret.

Tags

dreamlike, Gimli, madness, Manitoba, secret

Credits

Director
Guy Maddin
Writer
Guy Maddin
Producer
Greg Klymkiw, Stephen Snyder
Cinematographer
Guy Maddin
Editor
Guy Maddin
Cast
Kyle McCulloch, Michael Gottli, Angela Heck, Margaret Anne MacLeod, Heather Neale, David Neale

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