An Odyssey Across Time.
Cumberland, 1348. The plague is spreading in medieval England. The remote village of little Griffin is also threatened. But the 9-year-old boy has a recurring dream that holds the key to a tiny hope of survival: a lake with a coffin floating on it. A white church with an iron cross. A falling glove. A falling silhouette. A torch tumble through a dark shaft into infinity. With his brother he recognizes in it a prophecy to escape the Black Death. So they embark with a few men on a journey to a distant cathedral, where they want to set up an iron cross as an offering to God. Her path leads them through a deep and dark mine shaft into an unknown land and completely outlandish time - into the present-day New Zealand of the 1980s.
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Cast
- Bruce LyonsConnor
- Chris HaywoodArno
- Hamish McFarlaneGriffin
- Marshall NapierSearle
- Noel ApplebyUlf
- Paul LivingstonMartin
- Sarah PeirseLinnet
- Mark WheatleyTog 1
- Tony HerbertTog 2
- Jessica Cardiff-SmithEsme
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- Vincent WardDirector
- Geoff ChappleWriter
- Kely LyonsWriter
- Vincent WardWriter
- Geoffrey SimpsonDirector of Photography
- Davood A. TabriziOriginal Music Composer
- John ScottEditor
- John MaynardProducer
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