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Where the Spirit Lives (1990)

ALL 06/06/1990 (en) Drama 96 Min
  • Release
    06/06/1990
  • Production
    Atlantis Films, CBC, Amazing Spirit Productions Ltd.
  • Rotten tomato
    60%
  • Original title
    Where the Spirit Lives
  • Original language
    en
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
    -

A moving tribute to a young girl's courage and indomitable spirit...

Overview

In 1937, a young First Nations (Canadian native) 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. She is taken to a boarding school where she is forced to adopt Western Euro-centric ways and learn English, often under brutal treatment. Only one sympathetic white teacher who is more and more repelled by this bigotry offers her any help from among the staff. That, with her force of will, Ashtecome (forced to take the name Amelia) is determined to hold on to her identity and that of her siblings, who were also abducted.

  1. Bruce Pittman

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Michael Todd

    Editor



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Casts

  1. Michelle St. John

    Komi / Amelia

  2. Kim Bruisedhead Fox

    Anataki

  3. Marianne Jones

    Komi's Mother

  4. Gus Chief Moon

    Ka - moos - ee

  5. Clayton Julian

    Pita / Abraham

  6. Margaret Cozry

    Grandmother

  7. Marge Fox

    Anataki's Mother

  8. Ann-Marie MacDonald

    Kathleen

  9. Sean Mulcahy

    Priest

  10. Sam Malkin

    Mr. Crawford

  11. Doris Petrie

    Miss Weir

  12. Chapelle Jaffe

    Miss Appleby

  13. Tina Louise Bomberry

    Asst. Supervisor #2

  14. Barbara Wheeldon

    Matron

  15. John Friesen

    Mr. Babcock

  16. Heather Hess

    Rachel

  17. Cynthia Debassige

    Esther

  18. Franklin Doss

    George

  19. Darlene Shilling

    Rose

  20. Margaret Martina

    Sarah

  21. Sarah Williams

    Ruth

  22. Patricia Collins

    Mrs. Barrington

  23. Graham Greene

    Komi's Father

  24. Rudy Medicine Crane

    Rachel's Mother

  25. David Hemblen

    Reverend Buckley

  26. Ron White

    Taggart

Full Cast & Crew

Casts : 26 , Crews : 18

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Where the Spirit Lives (1990) 96 Min

ALL 06/06/1990 (en)
Drama
  • Release 06/06/1990
  • Production
    Atlantis Films, CBC, Amazing Spirit Productions Ltd.
  • Original title Where the Spirit Lives
  • en
  • Revenue0.00

A moving tribute to a young girl's courage and indomitable spirit...

Overview

In 1937, a young First Nations (Canadian native) 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. She is taken to a boarding school where she is forced to adopt Western Euro-centric ways and learn English, often under brutal treatment. Only one sympathetic white teacher who is more and more repelled by this bigotry offers her any help from among the staff. That, with her force of will, Ashtecome (forced to take the name Amelia) is determined to hold on to her identity and that of her siblings, who were also abducted.

  1. Bruce Pittman

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Michael Todd

    Editor

  4. Eric Jordan, Heather Haldane, Scott Shepherd, Mary Young Leckie

    Producer



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