The Heart of the World

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A scientist chooses a wealthy man over her two lovers but must heal the earth's core to save humanity.A scientist chooses a wealthy man over her two lovers but must heal the earth's core to save humanity.A scientist chooses a wealthy man over her two lovers but must heal the earth's core to save humanity.

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7.6/10

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Awards
- 7 wins total

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Leslie Bais

Anna

Caelum Vatnsdal

Osip

Shaun Balbar

Nikolai

Greg Klymkiw

Akmatov
(as Hryhory Yulyanovitch Klymkyiev)

Tammy Gillis

Mary Magdalene
(uncredited)

Carson Nattrass

Centurion
(uncredited)

Director
- Guy Maddin
Writer
- Guy Maddin
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Trivia
References/parodies Soviet montage cinema of the 1920s, German Expressionism of the 1920s, and silent melodrama film.

Connections
Edited into Guy Maddin: His Winnipeg (2014)

Soundtracks
Time, Forward
Written by Georgi Sviridov (as Giorgi Sviridov)
With permission from the Sviridov Foundation and Meloydiya © 1968

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Featured review

Amazing short film

Fans of Guy Maddin should check out this new short film. If you thought his previous short film Odilon Redon was an excellent film, The Heart Of The World tops it.

The pacing is frantic, the storyline is the classic love triangle that Guy loves working with, the setting is heavily influenced by Soviet imagery. Even the editing style is very similar to that of Eisenstein.

What also makes this film work very well is the accompanying Soviet music entitled Time, Forward.

Whereas Guy's recent longer narratives have failed (The Hands of Ida, and Twilight Of The Ice Nymphs), his shorts films just keep getting better and better.