A Walk Through H
1978 · 41 MIN · IMDB 7.1 · 652 VOTES · DIR. Peter Greenaway
Overview
An anonymous narrator outlines a bizarre journey taken through "H", aided by a series of extraordinary maps, and his previous dealings with the mysterious Tulse Luper and the keeper of the bird house at the Amsterdam Zoo.
Dialogue Timeline — 493 lines
A SAMPLE ACROSS THE RUNTIME — EVERY LINE IS SEARCHABLE
00:00:49 Tulse Luper arranged these drawings for me
00:02:43 The second city was Canterlupis.
00:04:10 Fallbazz tried to curb the enthusiasm he had helped to pioneer.
00:05:33 that mated with seagulls.
00:07:03 And this, I had been led to believe
00:08:23 It faded as I reached its furthest edge.
00:09:53 This drawing was bought on my behalf
00:11:32 Now indeed I was among fields
00:13:14 It was obviously more valuable to me as a fake.
00:14:36 It was only after I had been persuaded to steal this map
00:16:05 Van Hoyten was a bird counter.
00:17:53 They left me no signposts.
00:19:28 and I kept coming across the same places and the same events.
00:21:28 but it was imperative that I should buy it for myself.
00:22:40 Van Hoyten stayed on as owl keeper of the Amsterdam zoo.
00:23:48 He reported me.
00:25:05 My wife took a drawing I had bought to be framed.
00:26:36 and so is the date of my stay in the Bosphorus.
00:28:15 an ornithologist and a pioneer aviator.
00:29:27 I don't remember receiving the postcard, nor did I send it.
00:30:58 My imitative choice had to be corrected.
00:32:27 but the alphabetical path
00:34:10 And an inevitable recourse to a darkened copy of the past map
00:37:30 that had been wrapped around the maps of the last section, a bonus.
Cast & Characters
Dialogue Record
Lines indexed493
Dialogue density12.0 lines / min
First line00:00:49
Final line00:37:30
Production Record
DirectorPeter Greenaway
LanguageEnglish
IMDb votes652