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Archangel

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1990 · 82 min War Romance Drama
5.4 / 10 · TMDB

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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Year 1990
Country Canada
Genre War, Romance, Drama
Director Guy Maddin
Runtime 82 min.
Rating TMDB: 5.4/10 (52 votes)

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The film constructs a delirious world where personal obsession and historical chaos collide. Maddin relies on degraded film stock, theatrical artifice, and grotesque humor to explore the fragility of memory and identity in the wake of trauma.

What lingers after the final frame is a haunting, deeply melancholic, and darkly comic vision of love and loss amidst the absurdity of war. — MovieFinder Editorial

Director: Guy Maddin

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Watch late at night, alone, and surrender to its hypnotic, melancholic cadence.

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