Careful [1992]

Country of Origin: Canada
Year of Production: 1992
Running Times: 100 mins
Format: colour
Ratio:
Sound: stereo

CREDITS

PRODUCTION
Production Companies: The Canada Council / The Canada Manitoba Cultural Industries Development Office / The Greg and Tracy Film Ministry / The Manitoba Arts Council / Téléfilm Canada
Executive Producer: Andre Bennett
Producers: Greg Klymkiw, Tracy Traeger
Production Manager: Tracy Traeger
Production Coordinator: Sasha Iwanick

SCRIPT
Script: Guy Maddin, George Toles
Story: George Toles
Script Editor: Geoff Pevere

DIRECTION
Director: Guy Maddin
1st Assistant Director: Liz Jarvis
2nd Assistant Director: Richard O'Brien-Moran

PHOTOGRAPHY
Director of Photography: Guy Maddin
Camera Operator: Mike Marshall
1st Assistant Camera: Brian Sanders
2nd Assistant Camera: Caelum Vatnsdal
Gaffer: Tim Bewcyk
Best Boy: Deanne Rohde
Electric Dailies: Michael Drabot, Pierre Naday
Grip: Steve Madden
Stills: Jeff Solylo
Laboratories: Alpha Cine Service; Film House; Mid Canada Video Inc
Post Production Laboratory: Film House

EDITING AND POST PRODUCTION
Editor: Guy Maddin
1st Assistant Editor: Hans Ter Horst
2nd Assistant Editor: Ian Handford
3rd Assistant Editor: Lorri Millan

MUSIC
Music: John McCulloch

SOUND
Sound Recordists: Don Melnyk, Russ Dyck
Assistant Sound Recordist: Gerrie Van Heck
Sound Re-Recordist: Daniel Pellerin
Sound Editor: Guy Maddin
ADR Recordists: Don Melnyk, Russ Dyck
ADR Editor: Russ Dyck
Assistant ADR Editor: Linda Madden
Foley Artist: Andy Malcolm
Rush Syncher: Lorne Bailey
Sound Re-Recording Studio: Film House

MAKE UP AND COSTUMES
Make Up: Pamela M. Athayde, Donna Szoke
Make Up Dailies: Kim Forrest, Karri Moffat
Costume Designer: Donna Szoke
Wardrobe Supervisor: Carolyn Bradshaw
Seamstresses: Angela Heck, Carolyn Bradshaw, Leona Harvich, Sandra Seaman
Wardrobe Dailies: Deanna Desrosiers, Marion Degraves

VISUAL EFFECTS
Titles: Film Opticals

DESIGN AND SET CONSTRUCTION
Production Designer: Guy Maddin
Art Director: Jeff Solylo
1st Assistant Art Director: Hans Ter Horst
Set Designers: Craig Walls, Dean Smallwood
Property Buyers: Sherri Starkell, Caelum Vatnsdal, Conrad Percheson, Gerrie Van Heck, Michael Powell, Neil Minuk, Ian Handford
Construction Coordinators: Craig Walls, Dean Smallwood
Carpenters: Keith Walls, Larry Clark, Randy Kray
Painters: Karri Moffat, Larry Van Went, Ron Gorsline
Construction Dailies: Campbell Martin, Darren Mills, Joachim Martin, Karen Harvich, Marlowe Phillips, Ray Impey
Art Department Dailies: Mary Sylvester, Matt Holm

MISCELLANEOUS
Continuity: Hans Ter Horst
Production Accountant: Gloria Gibb
Production Assistants: Mary Sylvester, Kelli Shinfield
Assistant to Greg Klymkiw: Stephen Snyder
Assistant to Guy Maddin: Kelli Shinfield
Assistant to Tracy Traeger: Gerrie Van Heck
Animal Trainers / Wranglers: Stewart Hayek, Susan Lisoway
Caterer: Brad Linden
Unit Publicist: Greg Klymkiw
Diary: Stephen Snyder
Legal Services: Alex Dobrowolski
Insurance Broker: Claude Forest

LOCATIONS
Locations: Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

CASTING
Casting: Greg Klymkiw
Casting Coordinator: Shelagh Carter

CAST
Kyle McCulloch [Grigorss]
Gosia Dobrowolska [Zenaida]
Sarah Neville [Klara]
Paul Cox [Count Knotkers]
Brent Neale [Johann]
Victor Cowie [Herr Trotta]
Michael O'Sullivan [blind ghost]
Katya Gardner [Sigleinde]
Vince Rimmer [Franz]
Jackie Burroughs [Frau Teacher]
Ross McMillan [Chief Steward]
Leith Clark [Butler Blore]
Glen Hubich [Butler Schrammel]
Brendan Carruthers [mortician]
George Toles [Countess Knotkers]
Greg Klymkiw [Shower Meister]
Kelli Shinfield [Gerda the mountain girl]
Andrea Wichert, Carol McQuarrie, Barbara Green, Kathryn Martin, Lisa Skrypichako, Soffia Cooney, Dora Sigurdson, Hrund, Daisy, Tina Douvris, Arlea Ashcroft, Jennifer Harris, Rebecca Gibson, Julia Brown, Stacy Shore, Jillian Maddin, Alana Van Buren, Amanda Bourdon, Alexandra Rachey, Tanya Brown, Jessica Brown, Avril Maister, Tracy Gemmell, Ron Eyolfson, Roy Norton, Graham Bicq, Randy Kray, Sean Hanson, Robert Lunn, Peter Lunn, Don Hewak, Stu Lavitt, Jim Keller [townspeople]
Matt Holm, Conrad Percheson, Hans Ter Horst, Kurt Moritz, Jeff Solylo, Ian Handford, Caelum Vatnsdal, Mark Yuill, Jonas Chernick [Butler students]

SUMMARY

The residents of the remote Alpine village of Tolzbad talk quietly and move slowly as they are in constant risk of triggering a devastating avalanche. This leads to some strange mental aberrations and bizarre relationships among the paranoid townspeople.

AVAILABILITY

France
Theatrical Distributors: E.D. Distribution

USA
Theatrical Distributors: Zeitgeist Films
Video Distributors: Kino Video
DVD Distributors: Kino Video [K184DVD]

CENSORSHIP HISTORY

Iceland
Rating: 16

AWARDS

1992
Sudbury Cinéfest, Canada
Best Canadian Film [Guy Maddin] - winner

TIMELINE

1994
November
11: UK - television broadcast [on Channel Four]

1996
August
29: UK - television broadcast [on Channel Four]

1997
December
4: Belgium - theatrical release

1998
June
21: UK - television broadcast [on Channel Four]

2000
October
17: USA - DVD release [Kino Video [K184DVD]]

2005
September
9: UK - television broadcast [on Film Four]

ALTERNATIVE TITLES

Lawinen über Tolzbad - German title

LINKS

FOOTAGE INCLUDED IN
Celluloid Dreams [2002]
Guy Maddin: Waiting for Twilight [1997]

REFERENCES

MAGAZINES

FilmMagasinet August / September 1995 p.21 [Norway]
review [by Dag Tufte]

KEYWORDS

avalanches, blindness, butlers, duels, expressionism, ghosts, incest, melodrama, mountains, surrealism

Last Updated: 6 March, 2007