The White Dawn (1974)

Directed by

Philip Kaufman

Genre

drama film

Country

United States, Canada

Runtime

1h 50m

Rated

R

Rating

6.7 of 10 from 20 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Three whalers are rescued by an Inuit community in the Arctic. The outsiders' presence slowly leads to tension and conflict with their hosts.

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What happens

The White Dawn is a 1974 drama film directed by Philip Kaufman and starring Warren Oates, Timothy Bottoms, and Louis Gossett Jr. It portrays the conflict between aboriginal peoples' traditional way of life and Europeans' eagerness to take advantage of them. The film employs authentic Inuit language dialogue. It is based on the 1971 novel The White Dawn: An Eskimo Saga by James Archibald Houston, who co-wrote the screenplay. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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