Latitude 55°
8 /10 1 Votes
Budget 800,000 CAD Duration Language English | Director John Juliani Music director Victor Davies Country Canada | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Release date November 26, 1982 Writer John Juliani, Sharon Riis Cast August Schellenberg, Andree Pelletier Similar movies The Five Senses (1999), The Blue Butterfly (2004), Loyalties (1986), In the Shadow of the Wind (1987), John and the Missus | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Heading home from a job in rural Alberta, Canada, Department of Culture worker Wanda Woodsworths (Andree Pelletier) car breaks down on a remote stretch of highway. To make matters worse, a massive snowstorm rolls in, and Wandas stoicism turns to panic as she worries about being rescued. Luckily, she is saved by a local farmer, Josef Przysiezny (August Schellenberg), with whom she takes refuge in a small shack. As the storm wears on, the two learn a lot about each other and themselves.
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Latitude 55° is a 1982 Canadian drama/adventure film.
Plot
Wanda Woodsworth (Andree Pelletier), a field worker for the Department of Culture, is on her way home to the city after a winter assignment in the northern part of Alberta. Her car breaks down on the deserted highway and as the weather worsens she finds herself stranded in the middle of a blizzard. Her initial calm gives way to anxiety and eventually to panic as she desperately tries to stay awake and alive. At the height of the blizzard, Wanda is rescued by a local potato farmer, Joseph Przysiezny (August Schellenberg), who carries her to a dilapidated shack nearby. For two days and two nights, while waiting for the blizzard to pass, two people stalk each other restlessly, inexorably, with humour and passion, in a painfully revealing series of confrontations that runs the gamut from mistrust and terror to physical intimacy and almost religious ecstasy.