Latitude 55°

Latitude 55° is a 1982 Canadian drama/adventure film.

This article is about the motion picture. For geographic lines of latitude, see 55th parallel.

Latitude 55°
Directed byJohn Juliani
Written by
Produced by
Starring
CinematographyRobert Ennis
Edited by
  • Doris Dyck
  • Barbara Evans
Music byVictor Davies
Distributed byInternational Spectrafilm
Release date
November 26, 1982
Running time
102 minutes
CountryCanada
LanguageEnglish
Budget$ 800,000

Plot

Wanda Woodsworth (Andrée 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.

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