

While their mother is dying in the modern Gimli, Manitoba hospital, two young children are told an important tale by their Icelandic grandmother about Einar the lonely, his friend Gunnar, and the angelic Snjofrieder in a Gimli of old.
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Keywords: tmdb.avant-garde, imdb.blackface, imdb.dead-on-wedding-day, imdb.wound, imdb.smallpox, imdb.smallpox-epidemic, imdb.seagull + 32 more, imdb.puppet-show, imdb.dead-body-with-eyes-open, imdb.dead-woman, imdb.year-1988, imdb.absurdism, imdb.surrealism, imdb.cult-film, imdb.insanity, imdb.manitoba, imdb.hospital, imdb.necrophilia, imdb.dying-mother, imdb.death-of-wife, imdb.village, imdb.obsession, imdb.isolation, imdb.hallucination, imdb.fishing, imdb.fishing-village, imdb.film-history, imdb.expressionism, imdb.iceland, imdb.epidemic, imdb.independent-film, mdblist.fresh, mdblist.has-trailer, imdb.bedridden, mdblist.ext.2k-blu-ray, imdb.cat, imdb.dark-comedy, imdb.1900s, aspectratio.1-37-1
Watch Providers: myfilmfriend, Kino Film Collection
Production Companies: Extra Large Productions, The Canada Manitoba Cultural Industries Development Office (CIDO), Winnipeg Film Group