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Passage
20081 h 48 min 28 secFilm
Réalisation: John Walker
Production: Andrea NemtinKent MartinJohn WalkerBill Nemtin
Scénarisation: John WalkerAndrew Rai Berzins
Produced by PTV Productions and John Walker Productions in co-production with the National Film Board of Canada, with the participation of the Canadian Television Fund, Rogers Documentary Fund and Film Nova Scotia, in association with History Television, BBC Scotland, Nova Scotia Film Industry Tax Credit, OMDC, and CAVCO.
It was news that shook the English-speaking world. Celebrated British explorer Sir John Franklin and his crew of 128 men had perished in the Arctic ice during an ill-fated attempt to discover the Northwest Passage. More shocking, they had descended into madness and cannibalism.
The report came in 1851, from John Rae, a Scottish doctor working for the Hudson's Bay Company. Travelling thousands of miles on foot and in small craft, Rae had done what six years of searching by the British, Americans, French and Russians had failed to do - discover the fate of Franklin and unlock the final link in the Passage - a 300-year-old dream.
But Rae's horrific news did not sit well with Sir John's widow, Lady Franklin, nor with many others in British society, including Charles Dickens. They waged a bitter public campaign that would discredit Rae's version of events, banish him to the margins of history and mark an entire nation of northern Inuit with the horrifying label of murderous cannibals.
With Passage, filmmaker John Walker employs an innovative approach to structuring the incredible multilayered story of John Rae and brings it to vibrant life. Using a unique blend of dramatic action, and behind-the-scenes documentary footage, Walker pulls back the curtain on his own research into Rae's life and that of his actors, as they determine how to portray the characters and scenes in the film. The line between real and dramatic begins to blur as we move closer and closer to the film's cilimax, a stunning face-to-face meeting between Charles Dickens's great-great grandson and Tagak Curley, an honoured Inuit statesman who challenges the fraudulent history. In one moment, Walker vaults the story from the past into the present and we are witness to history in the making.
Set in the actual locations of Rae's journey, from his boyhood home in the remote Orkney Islands off Scotland's north coast to the epic landscape of his Arctic expeditions to the boardroom of the British Royal Navy - the centre of power of the British Empire, Passage is a story of incredible sacrifice, stunning distortion of the truth and single-minded obsession. It challenges the way we look at history.
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Catégories de sujets
- Géographie et Géologie > Arctique canadienExploration et ExpéditionsPortraits
- Histoire - Canada - Pré-1867 > Exploration
- Médias > Films documentaires
- Histoire > Premières explorations canadiennes (1600-1800)
Générique
- écriture
- John Walker
- réalisateur
- John Walker
- producteur
- Andrea Nemtin
- Kent Martin
- John Walker
- producteur exécutif
- Bill Nemtin
- directeur de la photographie
- Kent Nason
- photographie additionnelle
- Nigel Markham
- Andrew Speller
- John Walker
- monteur
- Jeff Warren
- John Brett
- son
- Alex Salter
- Jim Rillie
- compositeur de la musique
- Jonathan Goldsmith
- musique originale - production
- Jonathan Goldsmith
- d'après le livre
- Ken McGoogan
- interprète
- Rick Roberts
- Geraldine Alexander
- David Acton
- Andrew Alston
- Shaun Austin-Olsen
- Nigel Bennett
- Alistair Findlay
- Colin George
- Patrick Godfrey
- Simon Slater
- James Wallace
- Guy Oliver-Watts
- Gerald Dickens
- Bernadette Dean
- distribution artistique
- Clare Walker Casting
- Jessica Carney Associates
- gérant de production
- Marlene Rassmusen
- Judith Hackett
- Susan Baker
- vidéaste
- Marlene Rassmusen
- Kyle Cameron
- mise au point
- Becky Parsons
- Brad Larner
- chargeur caméra
- Becky Parsons
- David Churchill
- coordonnateur de production
- Clare Richards
- Shauna Hatt
- coach de dialectes
- Aimee Leonard
- chasseur
- Alan Shearer
- David Nuluk
- John Kaunak
- conseiller en alpinisme
- Derren Foxx
- vole à voiles
- Maurice Davidson
- Ian Richardson
- photographe - studio
- Gunnie Moberg
- Nance Ackerman
- chauffeur
- Terry Todd
- capitaine
- Adam Clarke
- Drama Club de Stromness
- Phyllis Brown
- Ciaran Delaney
- Graham Garson
- Finlay Harnden
- Ross Harnden
- Jane Hunter
- Philip Mackay
- Doreen McLellan
- Rose Matheson
- Jim Robertson
- conseiller
- Bernadette Dean
- guide
- David Nuluk
- John Kaunak
- aîné
- John Kaunak
- soutien au camp
- Susan Nuluk
- Marie Kringuk
- Bobby Sanertanut
- Gary Natar
- igloo
- Paul, Sr Kanayuk
- attelage de chiens
- Paul, Sr Kanayuk
- danse au tambour
- Cecilia Angotialuk
- Elizabeth Aglukka
- Alice Nanorak
- Honore Aglukka
- Michel Akkuardjuk
- Pasqualina Putulik
- John Kaunak
- musicien
- Monica Mapsalak
- Jackie Milortok
- Marcel Mapsalak
- Levi Katokra
- Paul Mablik
- conseiller à la production
- John Huston
- Lavinia Warner
- directeur du bureau
- Marnie Bienias
- régie de plateau
- Tiffany Muckpah
- Lorraine Puqiqnak
- Tracy Wallace
- Vincent Ningark
- Marie Kringuk
- traducteur
- Tiffany Muckpah
- assistant de production
- Guido Tigvareak
- Kelly Adams
- Gene Kanayok
- Gary Natar
- transport
- Darryl Siusangnark
- 1er assistant à la réalisation
- Stuart J.C. Williams
- 2e assistant à la réalisation
- Kay Robertson
- régisseur
- Ralph Cameron
- Debra Beers
- premier assistant machiniste
- Pat Sweeney
- opérateur de caméra
- Becky Parsons
- éclairages
- Steve Kitchen
- Roy Furness
- Bob Jeffs
- Richard Buckley
- Jess MacGillivray
- machiniste de plateau
- David Maund
- perchiste
- Paul Munro
- Andrew Rillie
- costumier
- Emma Fryer
- Jeanie Kimber
- maquilleur
- Lisa J. Robbie
- contribution à l'écriture
- Kirstie Edgar
- Joanne Hagen
- cantinier
- Didi Jolly
- Lothar Mayer
- conception visuelle
- Emanuel Jannasch
- assistance à la caméra
- Paul Bégin
- Darcy Fraser
- Andrew Stretch
- best boy machiniste
- Peter Fraser
- technicien - groupe électrogène
- David Wishart
- décorateur plateaux
- Karen Toole
- préparation des décors
- Mike Holleran
- coordination de la construction
- Ewen Dickson
- réalisation graphique
- John Hencher
- David Howse
- 3e assistant à la réalisation
- Devin Hillier
- assistant directeur de production
- Lisa J. Robbie
- comptable de production
- Wendy Brathwaite
- Andrea Romak
- recherchiste
- Barbara Sears
- Elizabeth Klinck
- Concetta Principe
- conseiller en marine
- Gordon Laco
- administrateur de centre
- John William Lutz
- superviseur de production
- Patsy Coughran
- agent, marketing
- Amy Stewart Gallant
- animation de la carte
- Ian Dunbar
- montage son
- Alex Salter
- mixeur du repiquage
- Allan Scarth
- coordination PowerPost
- Christopher Fost
- monteur en ligne
- Doug Woods
- coordonnateur postproduction
- Roz Power
- assistant monteur
- Trevor Schellinck
- Ariel Nasr
- Aaron Shapero
- Colin Kish
- Candice Desormeaux
- contrats des musiciens de l'orchestre
- Roberto Occhipinti
- soliste
- Hugh Marsh
- James Mason
- Clare Scholtz
- Kathy McLean
- producteur associé
- Cindy Witten
- Michael Kot
- Ewan Angus
Prix et récompenses
- Prix "Ed Higginson" pour meilleure cinématographie remis à Kent NasonAtlantic International Film Festival
- Meilleur réalisateurAtlantic International Film Festival
- Meilleur filmReel to Real International Film Festival for Youth and Families
- Prix "Silver Chris"Festival international du film et de la vidéo
- Meilleur film canadienWorld Media Festival