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
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
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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Cree Hunters of Mistassini (1974)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.