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Researching the background of the story behind "Map of the Human Heart", Nowra (screenwriter) and Vincent Ward (director) travelled through the Alaskan and Canadian Arctic and then the Canadian plains. From the beginning of the project and through the filming Nowra kept a diary. "The Fever" is an extract from the Montreal section of the filming (1992), and is part of Chapter 7 of the diary, "The Butchers are Coming".
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Map of the Human Heart
( dir. Vincent Ward
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1993
London
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Working Title Films
Vincent Ward Films
Map Films
Les Films Ariane
Sunrise Pictures Company
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1993
Z84829
1993
single work
film/TV
historical fiction
romance
In 1931, Walter Russell, a Canadian airman, flies into an Inuit village in Canada to map the area. He meets a boy, Avik, who is suffering from tuberculosis, and offers to take him to Montreal to receive medical treatment. At the hospital, Avik meets and falls in love with Albertine, a girl of mixed French Canadian and First Nation heritage, with whom his life will be forever linked. Spanning decades and distance, through war and adversity, their star-crossed relationship becomes a grand romantic adventure of never-ending intensity.
