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A Tragedy of the Great War

A haunting, dreamlike meditation on loss and displacement set amid revolutionary chaos, told through surreal black-and-white imagery and the fractured consciousness of a traumatized soldier.

At the height of the October Revolution during the 1919 allied intervention in Arkhangelsk, the exploits of one-legged Canadian soldier Lt. John Boles are told, after he is taken in from the cold by a dysfunctional Russian family and mistakes a local woman for his presumed dead lover.