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Sturla Gunnarsson

Sturla Gunnarsson

film director
January 1, 1951 (73 years old)
Can. 2014. Documentary by Sturla Gunnarsson. A meditation on the monsoon phenomenon in India, enriched with the testimonies of a girl living in a flood zone, a gambling man, and a meteorologist.
Runtime: 108 min.
Can. 2013. Science-fiction by Sturla Gunnarsson with Dominic Purcell, Adam Beach, Michael Ironside. A scientist and military personnel try to find genetically modified Russian soldiers in the Arctic who disappeared fifty years earlier.
Runtime: 95 min.
Can. 2011. Documentary by Zacharias Kunuk, Sturla Gunnarsson, Peter Lynch, Hubert Davis, John Walker, Jamie Travis, Scott Smith, Kevin McMahon, Catherine Martin, Stéphane Lafleur, Daniel Cockburn, Louise Archambault, Keith Behrman. To mark Parks Canada's centenary, some fifty contemporary artists are paying tribute to the splendours of the natural parks.
Runtime: 120 min.
Can. 2010. Documentary by Sturla Gunnarsson. The intimate and professional journey of the 75-year-old Canadian geneticist and environmentalist.
Runtime: 93 min.
Can. 2008. Documentary by Sturla Gunnarsson. A look at the failure of Canadian authorities to prevent the terrorist attack on the Air India flight that killed 329 people on June 22, 1985.
Can. 2006. History by Sturla Gunnarsson with Kenneth Welsh, Richard E. Grant, Joss Ackland. During World War II, the story of the Atlantic Ferry Operation which delivered twenty thousand aircraft to England from Newfoundland.
Runtime: n/d
G.-B. 2005. Adventures drama by Sturla Gunnarsson with Gerard Butler, Stellan Skarsgard, Sarah Polley. At the request of the Danish king, a Swedish knight must kill a monster that terrorizes the inhabitants of the kingdom.
Runtime: 102 min.
Can. 2002. Drama by Sturla Gunnarsson with Michael Riley, Aidan Devine, Adrien Dorval. The ordeal of Canadian workers kidnapped by a guerilla group in Ecuador.
Runtime: 93 min.
Can. 2002. Biography by Sturla Gunnarsson with Jason Alexander, Kelly Rowan, Edward Asner. Toy inventor A.C. Gilbert's tries to convince Congress not to ban Christmas celebrations during World War I.
Runtime: 94 min.
Can. 2001. Mores comedy by Sturla Gunnarsson with William Hurt, Andy Jones, Molly Parker. In Newfoundland, a depressed cook comes up with a plan with his inventor friend to revive his failing restaurant.
Runtime: 101 min.
U.S. 2000. Mores drama by Sturla Gunnarsson with Eric Johnson, Brendan Fletcher, Bill Switzer. In Victoria, British Columbia, a young man kills his mother and grandmother to get their money.
Runtime: 96 min.

Le Dernier Combat

V.O.: Dangerous Evidence: The Lori Jackson Story
U.S. 1999. Court drama by Sturla Gunnarsson with Lynn Whitfield, Richard Yearwood, Richard Lineback. An activist comes to the aid of a black serviceman sentenced to thirty years in prison for allegedly raping a white woman.
Runtime: 92 min.
U.S. 1999. Biography by Sturla Gunnarsson with Gregory Calpakis, Jamey Sheridan, Sara Botsford. The life of the actor and singer Ricky Nelson.
Runtime: 100 min.

Un si long voyage

V.O.: Such a Long Journey
Can. 1998. Mores drama by Sturla Gunnarsson with Roshan Seth, Soni Razdan, Om Puri. In India, an innocent family man is drawn into a dirty money-laundering scheme by a childhood friend.
Runtime: 113 min.
Can. 1997. Documentary by Sturla Gunnarsson. The love story between a former torturer in the South African army and a journalist supporter of the African National Congress.
Runtime: 75 min.

The Diana Kilmury Story

V.O.: Diana Kilmury Teamster
Runtime: 120 min.
Can. 1993. Biography by Sturla Gunnarsson with Sandra Oh, Kenneth Welsh, Eugene Lipinski. After running away from home, a Chinese Canadian woman gets herself involved in prostitution and drugs before becoming a novelist.
Can. 1992. Court drama by Sturla Gunnarsson with Zachary Ansley, Kenneth Welsh, Sean McCann. The case of a 14-year-old boy convicted of the rape and murder of a 12-year-old girl in Ontario in 1959.
Can. 1991. Political drama by Sturla Gunnarsson with Wendel Meldrum, Ofelia Medina, Michael Hogan. A diplomat sent to El Salvador discovers that the social housing built with Canadian aid funds is being used as barracks.
Runtime: 95 min.

La Dernière Offre

V.O.: Final Offer
Can. 1985. Documentary by Sturla Gunnarsson. Negotiations between Canadian automobile workers and General Motors in 1984.

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