Tales from the Gimli Hospital (1989)

Directors

Guy Maddin

Cast

Kyle McCulloch, Michael Gottli, Angela Heck, Margaret Anne MacLeod

The story

The film opens on two young children whose mother is dying in the present-day Gimli, Manitoba hospital. During a visit to see her, the children's Icelandic grandmother launches into the grim and convoluted tale of Einar the Lonely, a patient in a far-distant-past version of the same hospital—in "a Gimli we no longer know," as the grandmother puts it. The rest of the film consists of Einar's story.

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