The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey (1988)
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.
- Released
- Dec 15, 1988
- Director
- Vincent Ward
- Writer
- Geoff Chapple, Kely Lyons, Vincent Ward
- Studio
- Arenafilm, Film Investment Corporation of New Zealand, The Australian Film Commission
- Language
- English
- Country
- Australia, New Zealand
