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Title: Archangel (1990)
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Michael Gottli | ... | Jannings |
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David Falkenburg | ... | Geza |
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Michael O'Sullivan | ... | Doctor |
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Margaret Anne MacLeod | ... | Baba |
| Ari Cohen | ... | Philbin | |
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Sarah Neville | ... | Danchuk |
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Kathy Marykuca | ... | Veronkha |
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Kyle McCulloch | ... | Lt. John Boles |
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Victor Cowie | ... | Sea Captain |
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Ihor Procak | ... | Monk |
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Robert Lougheed | ... | Kaiser Wilhelm II |
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Stephen Snyder | ... | Stage Kaiser Wilhelm II (as Snyder) |
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Michael Powell | ... | Red Cross Nurse |
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Sam Toles | ... | Young Philbin |
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Lloyd Weinberg | ... | Priest |
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... Written by L.H. Wong <lhw@sfs.org.sg>
This wierd, dreamlike film goes a long way on a limited budget, creating a completely unreal experience about a real historical event in Archangel, Russia during the Russian revolution.
Like all of Maddin's other films, Boles is and anti-hero, his subversive obsession with Veronika could not be interpreted as love or heroic, a brillliant deconstruction of your average war movie.
The ending is a bit disappointing (out of the brooding character with the rest of the film) but in all a great film.