The White Dawn
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Philip Kaufman
Oolipka Joamie
Ashoona Kilabuck
Meetook Mallee
Namonai Ashoona
Pitseolala Kili
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
Based on a true story that took place in the Canadian Arctic circa 1900. Three sailors, marooned on the ice cap, are taken in by a tribe of nomadic Eskimos.
Director
Philip Kaufman
Cast
Oolipka Joamie
Ashoona Kilabuck
Meetook Mallee
Namonai Ashoona
Pitseolala Kili
Simonie Kopapik
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Warren Oates
Joanasie Salomonie
Louis Gossett
Higa Ipeelie
Munamee Sako
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Timothy Bottoms
Aupalotak Simonee
Jacob Partridge
Seemee Nookiguak
Crew
Jon Andersen
Marcel Carpenter
Michael Chapman
Don Guest
James D. Houston
James D. Houston
James D. Houston
James J Klinger
Richard Lightstone
Tony Lucibello
Henry Mancini
Henry E Millar
Martin Ransohoff
Martin Ransohoff
Martin Ransohoff
Tom Rickman
Douglas Stewart
Film Details
Technical Specs
Quotes
Trivia
Miscellaneous Notes
Shown at AFI Fest 2000: The American Film Institute Los Angeles International Film Festival (Philip Kaufman Retrospective) October 19-26, 2000.
c Movielab
dialogue partly Eskimo
8069 feet
partly subtitled English
rtg BBFC AA
rtg MPAA R