Map of the Human Heart (1992) on Netflix
R19921h 49mAdventureDramaRomanceWar
In 1931, British cartographer Walter Russell takes Avik, of the Arctic settlement of Nunataaq, as his guide. Tuberculosis sends Avik to a Montreal clinic, where he meets Albertine, a Métis girl.
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Plot summary
In 1965, an older Avik recounts his life to a mapmaker in the Arctic. It begins in 1931 in the settlement of Nunataaq, where the British cartographer Walter Russell takes the boy Avik on as a guide. Avik contracts tuberculosis, and Russell, to ease his own guilt, takes him to a clinic in Montreal. There Avik meets Albertine, a Métis girl, and the two fall in love, until the Mother Superior who runs the clinic separates them. Back north, Avik meets Russell again, who is hunting a wrecked German U-boat off the coast, and Avik asks him to find out where Albertine has gone. Avik has carried a chest X-ray of her since their separation. He believes he brings misfortune to those around him.
Cast
- Jayko Pitseolakas Avik's Grandmother
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Map of the Human Heart (1992)
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- Vincent Ward finished shooting Map of the Human Heart's firebombing of Dresden scenes on the day he got word that his father had died; his father had taken part in the real Dresden firebombing, and Ward dedicated the film to him.
