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 own 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,
Credits
Collection metadata
ACMI Identifier
300676
Language
English
Audience classification
PG
Subject categories
Advertising, Film, Journalism, Mass Media & TV → Ward, Vincent
Closed captioning
Fantasy & Science Fiction
Fantasy & Science Fiction → Science fiction films
Feature films
Feature films → Feature films - New Zealand
History → Mythology
Literature → Mythology
People → Ward, Vincent
Sound/audio
Captioned
Colour
Colour
Holdings
VHS; Access Print (Section 1)