Solitaire

Release Information
October 25, 1991
unknown/inconnu
Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC)
Funding Sources
Budget
Budget: $659,000
Distributors

Production Details

Executive Producer
Lorne W. MacPherson
Producer
Francis Damberger
Lars Lehmann
Lars Lehmann
Francis Damberger
Director
Francis Damberger
Francis Damberger
Francis Damberger
Francis Damberger
Francis Damberger
Francis Damberger
Francis Damberger
Francis Damberger
Director of Photography
Peter Wunstorf
Peter Wunstorf
Peter Wunstorf
Peter Wunstorf
Peter Wunstorf
Peter Wunstorf
Peter Wunstorf
Peter Wunstorf
Peter Wunstorf
Peter Wunstorf
Peter Wunstorf
Peter Wunstorf
Director of Sound
Jacqueline Cristianini
Art Director
Chris Dutton
Music
Michael Becker
Michael Becker
Writer
Francis Damberger
Francis Damberger
Francis Damberger
Francis Damberger
Editor
Lenka Svab
Lenka Svab
Lenka Svab
Lenka Svab
Lenka Svab
Lenka Svab
Lenka Svab
Lenka Svab
Lenka Svab
Lenka Svab
Lenka Svab
Lenka Svab
Lenka Svab
Jacqueline Cristianini
Cast
Michael Hogan
Michael Hogan
Michael Hogan
Michael Hogan
Michael Hogan
Michael Hogan
Michael Hogan
Michael Hogan
Michael Hogan
Michael Hogan
Michael Hogan
Michael Hogan
Michael Hogan
Michael Hogan
Michael Hogan
Michael Hogan
Michael Hogan
Michael Hogan
Michael Hogan
Michael Hogan
Michael Hogan
Michael Hogan
Paul Coeur
Paul Coeur
Paul Coeur
Paul Coeur
Paul Coeur
Paul Coeur
Paul Coeur
Paul Coeur
Paul Coeur
Val Pierson
Lee Royce
Larry Musser
Larry Musser
Larry Musser
Larry Musser
Larry Musser
Larry Musser
Larry Musser
Larry Musser
Francis Damberger
Francis Damberger
Francis Damberger
Francis Damberger
Francis Damberger
Francis Damberger
Francis Damberger
Francis Damberger
Francis Damberger
Francis Damberger
Francis Damberger
Francis Damberger
Francis Damberger
Francis Damberger
105 minutes, 1991

Christmas Eve in a remote prairie town. Set in a truck stop miles from anywhere two characters hold the stage for the first half-hour in magisterial fashion. She has run the place alone since her alcoholic father died. He has never left home and runs the local Post Office having taken care of his mother up to her death five years previous. Just small comments between two of life's wallflowers who have been living lives of quiet desperation for the last 25 years. Then one time local hero Al shows up.

Source: Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC)

Commentaries


  • Shot for only $600,000 in four weeks, yet nominated for four Genie awards, Solitaire (1992) was writer-director, Francis Damberger’s first feature film. The script started life as a working class answer to the movie Dinner with André; it is a...

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