Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 82 min
- Age rating
- PG-13
- Language
- English
- Country
- Canada
- Violence
- Moderate
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
The story
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.
- amnesia
- surrealism
- black and white
- silent film
- dreamlike
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Ari Cohen — Philbin
- Sarah Neville — Danchuk
- Kathy Marykuca — Veronkha
- Kyle McCulloch — Lt. John Boles
- Victor Cowie — Sea Captain
- Ihor Procak — Monk
- Chris Johnson — Russian Soldier
- Vince Rimmer — Bolshevik
- Robert Lougheed — Kaiser Wilhelm II
- Stephen Snyder — Stage Kaiser Wilhelm II
- Michael Powell — Red Cross Nurse
- Directed
- Guy Maddin
- Written
- Guy Maddin, George Toles, John B. Harvie
Production
- Rating
- 5.5 / 10 · 53 ratings
- Studio
- Ordnance Pictures, Cinephile, Winnipeg Film Group, Téléfilm Canada, The Manitoba Arts Council, CIDO
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
