Archangel

1990 • Directed by

Guy Maddin

War, Romance, Drama

A Tragedy of the Great War

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.