Latitude 55°

Latitude 55°
Directed by	John Juliani
Produced by	Donna Wong-Juliani
Written by	John Juliani Sharon Riis
Starring	Andrée Pelletier August Schellenberg
Music by	Victor Davies
Cinematography	Robert Ennis
Editing by	Doris Dyck Barbara Evans
Distributed by	International Spectrafilm
Release date(s)	November 26, 1982
Running time	102 minutes
Country	Canada
Language	English
Budget	$ 800,000
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Wanda Woodsworth (Pelletier), a field worker for the Department of Culture, is on her way home to the city after a winter assignment in the northern part of Alberta. Her car breaks down on the deserted highway and as the weather worsens she finds herself stranded in the middle of a blizzard. Her initial calm gives way to anxiety and eventually to panic as she desperately tries to stay awake and alive. At the height of the blizzard, Wanda is rescued by a local potato farmer, Joseph Przysiezny (Schellenberg), who carries her to a dilapidated shack nearby. For two days and two nights, while waiting for the blizzard to pass, two people stalk each other restlessly, inexorably, with humour and passion, in a painfully revealing series of confrontations that runs the gamut from mistrust and terror to physical intimacy and almost religious ecstasy.