The Navigator: A Medieval Odyssey
An Odyssey Across Time.
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.
- Year: 1988
- Country: Australia, New Zealand
- Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy, Mystery
- Studio: Arenafilm, Film Investment Corporation of New Zealand, The Australian Film Commission, New Zealand Film Commission
- Keyword: new zealand, time travel, black death, plague, tunnel, medieval england, 14th century, prophetic dreams
- Director: Vincent Ward
- Cast: Bruce Lyons, Chris Haywood, Hamish McFarlane, Marshall Napier, Noel Appleby, Paul Livingston
