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Tales from the Gimli Hospital is a canadien film of genre Drama directed by Guy Maddin released in USA on 30 september 1988 with Kyle McCulloch
Tales from the Gimli Hospital (1988)
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Add to a movie listTales from the Gimli Hospital (1988) was the feature film debut of director Guy Maddin, his second film after the short The Dead Father. Tales from the Gimli Hospital was shot in black and white on 16mm film and stars Kyle McCulloch as Einar, a lonely fisherman who contracts smallpox and begins to compete with another patient, Gunnar (played by Michael Gottli) for the attention of the young nurses.
Maddin had himself endured a recent period of male rivalry and noticed that he found himself "quite often forgetting the object of jealousy" and instead becoming "possessive of my rival." The film was originally titled Gimli Saga after the amateur history book produced locally by various Icelandic members of the community of Gimli (Maddin himself is Icelandic by ancestry). Maddin's aunt Lil had recently retired from hairdressing, and allowed Maddin to use her beauty salon (also Maddin's childhood home) as a makeshift film studio (Lil appears in the film briefly as a "bedside vigil-sitter in one quick shot [taken] just a couple of days before she died" at the age of 85. After Maddin's mother sold the house/studio, Maddin completed the remaining shots of the film at various locations, including his own home, over a period of eighteen months. Maddin received a grant from the Manitoba Arts Council for $20,000 and often cites that figure as the film's budget, although also estimates the actual budget between $14,000 and $30,000.
Synopsis
Einar, un pêcheur solitaire qui contracte la variole est admis au Gimli Hospital. Il y entre en compétition avec son voisin de chambre Gunnar pour attirer l'attention des infirmières.Actors
Kyle McCulloch
(Einar the Lonely / Minstrel)
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