Movie Description
Where the Spirit Lives
(1990)Overview
In 1937, a young First Nations girl named Ashtecome is kidnapped along with several other children from a village as part of a deliberate Canadian policy to force First Nations children to abandon their culture in order to be assimilated into white Canadian/British society. Taken to a boarding school where she's forced to adopt Western Euro-centric ways and learn English, often under brutal treatment, she has the support of one sympathetic white teacher.
Featured Crew
- Director : Bruce Pittman
- Producer : Eric Jordan,Heather Haldane,Scott Shepherd,Mary Young Leckie
- Writer : Keith Ross Leckie
- Editor : Michael Todd
- Cast : Michelle St. John,Kim Bruisedhead Fox,Marianne Jones,Gus Chief Moon,Clayton Julian,Margaret Cozry,Marge Fox,Ann-Marie MacDonald,Sean Mulcahy,Sam Malkin,Doris Petrie,Chapelle Jaffe,Tina Louise Bomberry,Barbara Wheeldon,John Friesen,Heather Hess,Cynthia Debassige,Franklin Doss,Darlene Shilling,Margaret Martina,Sarah Williams,Patricia Collins,Graham Greene,Rudy Medicine Crane,David Hemblen,Ron White,Sarah Williams
Cast
Komi / Amelia
Anataki
Komi's Mother
Ka - moos - ee
Pita / Abraham
Grandmother
Anataki's Mother
Kathleen
Priest
Mr. Crawford
Miss Weir
Miss Appleby
Asst. Supervisor #2
Matron
Mr. Babcock
Rachel
Esther
George
Rose
Sarah
Ruth
Mrs. Barrington
Komi's Father
Rachel's Mother
Reverend Buckley
Taggert
Ruth
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Facts
Original TitleWhere the Spirit Lives
Status Released
Release Information
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1990-06-06
Original LanguageEnglish
Runtime 01h 36m
Production CompaniesAtlantis Films,CBC,Amazing Spirit Productions Ltd.
Genres
- Drama
