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The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey

Adventure · Fantasy

The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey

An Odyssey Across Time.

6.2(91) 12/15/1988 1h 32m
AdventureFantasyMystery

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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Top Cast

Bruce Lyons

Bruce Lyons

Connor

Chris Haywood

Chris Haywood

Arno

HM

Hamish McFarlane

Griffin

Marshall Napier

Marshall Napier

Searle

Noel Appleby

Noel Appleby

Ulf

Paul Livingston

Paul Livingston

Martin

Sarah Peirse

Sarah Peirse

Linnet

MW

Mark Wheatley

Tog 1

Directed by

Vincent Ward

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CinemaSerf

6/10

8/10/2025

You know what they say about a library book - you ought not to read the last pages first! Well this is one of those films where you do wish you’d seen the last scenes first because they slot so much of it into a perspective that hitherto is at best nebulously ill-defined. We start in a stark, wintery, northern England where the plague is rife and a village is determined to protect itself from all-comers. One of their number, the young “Griffin” (Hamish Gaugh) is prone to vivid dreams which frequently see him end up in the water and that offer the village a glimmer of hope. They must find a cross (or spike) to top their church and induce God to spare them from death, but that involves travel - and the only way is down, through the bowels of the earth where he, his brother “Connor” (Bruce Ly

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