map of the human heart

Director: vincent ward

Actor: jason scott lee,anne parillaud,patrick bergin,robert joamie

Data Published: Thu Apr 22 1993

Genres: Adventure,Drama,Romance,War

Key Words: 30 year time span,year 1965,year 1931,montreal quebec canada,year 1941

IMDB: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0104812/

WIKI: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Map_of_the_Human_Heart

Description: Map of the Human Heart is a movie starring Jason Scott Lee, Anne Parillaud, and Patrick Bergin. Arctic, 1965: Avik tells his story starting 1931. A mapmaker flies Avik, then a preteen Eskimo boy with TB, to a hospital in Montreal,...

Plot: In 1931, in the Arctic-Canadian settlement of Nunataaq, Avik (Robert Joamie) lives under the watchful eye of his grandmother (Jayko Pitseolak). While tagging along after British cartographer Walter Russell (Patrick Bergin), Avik falls prey to tuberculosis, the "white man's disease". To assuage his own guilt, Russell takes the boy to a Montreal clinic to recover. There, Avik meets Albertine (Annie Galipeau), a Métis girl and the two fall in love, but their relationship is quickly broken up by the Mother Superior who is in charge of the clinic. Years later, Avik again meets Russell, who this time is on a mission to recover the German U-boat lying wrecked off the coast of Nunataaq. Throughout his life, Avik is haunted by love for a now-grown Albertine (Anne Parillaud) and by a belief that he brings misfortune to those around him. Avik asks for Russell's help in learning her whereabouts, and he gives the cartographer a chest X-ray of the girl which he has carried with him since their separation. More time elapses, and a mature Avik (Jason Scott Lee) joins the Royal Canadian Air Force in the Second World War and eventually becomes a bombardier in a Avro Lancaster bomber. Albertine, who has become Russell's mistress, seeks out Avik. She begins an affair with Avik, but Russell soon finds out, and as revenge, he sends Avik and his crew on a suicide mission (firebombing of Dresden), in which Avik is the lone survivor of his crew. Despondent over his war experiences, Avik flees to Canada, where he becomes an alcoholic. Decades later, he is sought out by Rainee (Clotilde Courau), the daughter born from his affair with Albertine. On his way to the girl's wedding, Avik crashes his snowmobile on an ice floe; as he freezes to death, he dreams of going to his daughter's wedding and flying away on a balloon with Albertine.