The navigator is remarkable because of its absorbing story that links medieval fears and fortunes to our times, while confirming director Vincent Ward as an original talent. It is Cumbria 1348, the year of the Black Death. A young visionary tells his fellow miners that their community may survive the plague if they place a spire on a distant cathedral before dawn. So, from their grim, snowbound Lake District, they dig down an old mine-shaft to the other side of the world, emerging in an Eastman-coloured present day Auckland, New Zealand. Cast includes Bruce Lyons, Chris Haywood and Hamish McFarlane.
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ACMI Identifier
300360
Language
English
Audience classification
PG
Subject categories
Advertising, Film, Journalism, Mass Media & TV → Ward, Vincent
Fantasy & Science Fiction
Fantasy & Science Fiction → Science fiction films
Feature films
Feature films → Feature films - New Zealand
History → Mythology
Literature → Mythology
People → Ward, Vincent
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Sound
Colour
Colour
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VHS; Access Print (Section 1)