The Heart of the World
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| Directed by | Guy Maddin |
| Written by | Guy Maddin |
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| Cinematography | Guy Maddin |
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| Music by | Georgy Sviridov |
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Running time | 6 min. |
| Country | Canada |
| Language | English |
The Heart of the World is a
Plot summary
The plot of The Heart of the World concerns two brothers, Osip and Nikolai, who compete for the love of the same woman: Anna, a state scientist studying the Earth's core. Anna discovers that the heart of the world is in danger of a fatal heart attack (which would mean the end of the world), and the brothers compete amongst the public panic. Nikolai is a mortician and tries to impress Anna with assembly-line embalming, while Osip is an actor playing Christ in the Passion Play and tries to impress Anna through his suffering. Anna is instead seduced by an evil capitalist, but has a change of heart and strangles the plutocrat, then slides down into the heart of the world, where she manages to save the world from destruction by transforming into cinema itself, the world's "new and better heart — Kino!"[3]
Cast
Leslie Bais as Anna
Caelum Vatnsdal as Osip
Shaun Balbar as Nikolai
Greg Klymkiw as Akmatov
Awards and nominations
- Win: Best Cinematography
- Win: Special Mention – Short Film
- Win: FIPRESCI Prize, Best Short Subject
San Francisco International Film Festival
- Win: Film & Video – Short Narrative, Golden Gate Award – Guy Maddin
References
- ISBN 1-894037-11-1
- ^ a b "Guy Maddin: Imagining 'entirely original worlds'". Canada Council for the Arts. Archived from the original on 2013-06-01. Retrieved 2012-12-12.
- ^ The Guy Maddin Collection. Dir. Guy Maddin. Zeitgeist Video, 2002. DVD.
- Sudbury Star, February 8, 2002.
