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Tales from the Gimli Hospital (1988)
Directed by Guy Maddin
“It all happened in a Gimli we no longer know.”
Comedy, Horror · 1h 04m
While their mother is dying in the modern Gimli, Manitoba hospital, two young children are told an important tale by their Icelandic grandmother about Einar the lonely, his friend Gunnar, and the angelic Snjofrieder in a Gimli of old.
Cast
Kyle McCulloch
Einar the Lonely / Minstrel
M
Michael Gottli
Gunnar
A
Angela Heck
Snjófridur
M
Margaret Anne MacLeod
Amma
H
Heather Neale
Granddaughter
D
David Neale
Grandson
D
Don Hewak
John Ramsay
R
Ron Eyolfson
Pastor Osbaldison / Patient
C
Chris Johnson
Lord Dufferin
D
Donna Szöke
Fish Princess
T
Tiffany Taylor
Gunnar's Strolling Companion / Gimli Maiden
L
Linda Schinkel
Dying Mother
Crew
- Director
- Guy Maddin
- Writer
- Guy Maddin
- Editor
- Guy Maddin
- Producer
- Greg Klymkiw, Stephen Snyder
Details
- Release date
- 1988-04-15
- Runtime
- 1h 04m
- Genres
- Comedy, Horror
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- Icelandic, English
- Countries
- Canada
- Production
- Extra Large Productions, CIDO, Winnipeg Film Group
- Budget
- $25,000