Drowning in Dreams

Allder, Michael, (film producer.). Flahive, Gerry, (film producer.). Lore, Louise, (film producer.). Sheil, Emmet, (film producer.). Southam, Tim, (film director.). National Film Board of Canada (Montreal), (film producer.).

Summary: Drowning in Dreams enters the dark and illusory world of one man's obsession. A story of greed and redemption, guilt and death, the film charts the course of a fatal dream as Fred Broennle plumbs the chilly depths of Lake Superior in a quest to raise the luxury steam yacht Gunilda. Run aground and sunk in 1911, with no loss of life and barely an afterthought by her wealthy American owners, Gunilda sat virtually intact in three hundred feet of water until one weekend in 1970, when Broennle and his diving instructor and partner Charles King Hague set out to find her. The fabulous wreck would soon cost Broennle a fortune, cause the death of King Hague, and change his own life forever. Torn between the duelling forces of greed and guilt over his partner's drowning, Broennle plunges into an hallucinatory lifetime project to raise Gunilda from the freezing waters. As his struggle becomes more and more desperate, we meet his son Tug, who, though deeply jealous of Fred's fixation on Gunilda, is himself drawn further and further into the web of his father's obsession.

Record details

Physical Description: 1 streaming video (72 min., 04 sec.) : sound
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Publisher: Montreal : National Film Board of Canada, 2024.
Copyright: ©1997

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General Note:	Multi-User. CatMonthString:march.24 Agency - English program:.Ontario Centre.
Restrictions on Access Note:	No restrictions.
Creation/Production Credits Note:	Director, Tim Southam ; producer, Michael Allder ; executive producer, Louise Lore, Gerry Flahive ; associate producer, Emmet Sheil ; photography, Éric Cayla ; sound, Ao Loo ; editing, Nick Hector ; sound editing, Claude Beaugrand ; re-recording, Serge Boivin, Geoffrey Mitchell.
Type of Computer File or Data Note:	Streaming video.
Date/Time and Place of an Event Note:	Recorded 1997.
System Details Note:	Mode of access: Internet. Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note:	Access requires VIU IP addresses and is restricted to VIU students, faculty and staff. Access may be limited to affiliated libraries.
Issuing Body Note:	Made available online by publisher.
Source of Description Note:	Description based on online resource; title from title screen (National Film Board of Canada, viewed 2024-05-01).