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The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey

An Odyssey Across Time.

6.2(93)19881h 32m2

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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Status
Released
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Language
English
  • new zealand
  • time travel
  • black death
  • plague
  • tunnel
  • medieval england
  • 14th century
  • prophetic dreams

Top billed cast

Behind the camera

Director

Vincent Ward

Produced in

Australia, New Zealand

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Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • Theatrical3 Mar 1989
  • AustraliaAU

    • TheatricalPG15 Dec 1988
  • CanadaCA

    • PremiereToronto International Film Festival16 Sept 1988
  • CzechiaCZ

    • Theatrical (limited)15+Film clubs only24 Mar 2003
  • GermanyDE

    • Theatrical1613 Apr 1989
    • Physical16VHS16 Oct 1989
    • Physical16DVD, cut14 Aug 2008
    • Physical16DVD, uncut16 Feb 2023

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The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey was released on 15 December 1988.

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    CinemaSerf

    8/10/2025

    6/10

    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…

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