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Guy Maddin, hockey player for the Winnipeg Maroons, takes his pregnant girlfriend to a beauty salon that moonlights as an abortion clinic and leaves her (mid-procedure) for the salon owner's daughter. He then discovers that his new girlfriend can't be with a man until she avenges her father's murder.

Alternate Title: Cowards bend the knee (Motion picture); Blue hands

Additional Contributors: Dionisio, Melissa; Fehr, Darcy; Monk, Philip; Birtwhistle, Tara; Maddin, Guy; Gurdebeke, John; Mogatas, Henry

Imprint: New York : - Zeitgeist Films

Edition: Standard format

Language: English

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Not rated

Credits: Photographer, Guy Maddin ; editor, John Gurdebeke.

Performers: Darcy Fehr, Melissa Dionisio, Tara Birtwhistle, Henry Mogatas.

Notes: DVD; region 1.
Silent with English intertitles.
Adapted from a ten-part peephole installation released in 2003.
Special features: audio commentary by Guy Maddin ; Love-Chaunt workbooks ; behind-the-scenes for The brand upon the brain ; photo archive ; artistic statement ; character sketches ; missing script excerpt ; essay "A note on hands".

Statement of responsibility: Zeitgeist Films and the Power Plant present ; written and directed by Guy Maddin ; produced by Philip Monk

Characteristics: 1 videodisc :,sd., col. ;,4 3/4 in.

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