Trial at Fortitude Bay

TV Movie
1994
1h 36m

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Defence attorney Gina Antonelli is sent to an Arctic village to defend 19 year-old Pauloosie, accused of committing a violent crime. Her rival, prosecutor Daniel Metz seeks the maximum sente... Read allDefence attorney Gina Antonelli is sent to an Arctic village to defend 19 year-old Pauloosie, accused of committing a violent crime. Her rival, prosecutor Daniel Metz seeks the maximum sentence possible under Canadian law, but Gina comes to understand the reasons why the Inuits o... Read allDefence attorney Gina Antonelli is sent to an Arctic village to defend 19 year-old Pauloosie, accused of committing a violent crime. Her rival, prosecutor Daniel Metz seeks the maximum sentence possible under Canadian law, but Gina comes to understand the reasons why the Inuits own justice system has worked for thousands of years. Pauloosie is caught between two rival... Read all

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6.1/10

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- 2 nominations

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Lolita Davidovich

Gina Antonelli

Henry Czerny

Daniel Metz

Raoul Max Trujillo

Simon Amituq
(as Raoul Trujillo)

Robert Ito

Methusala

Marcel Sabourin

Judge Jean Lamberts

Paul Gordon

Pauloosie

David Lawrence Brown

Cpl. Anderchuk
(as David Brown)

Rosalind Machmer

Nuna
(as Rose Machmer)

Tanya Enook

Natsiq

Leetia Riddell

Susan Potsiulik

Paula Kaye

Video Woman
(as Paula Kozakewich)

Nancy Jane Drake

Maggie Sawyer
(as Nancy Drake)

Barbara Gordon

Josephine Kant

Joshua Kango

Bingo Announcer

Paula Kozakewich

Video Woman

Tracey McCorrister

Court Stenographer

Rick McNair

Big Bob

Jukeepa Nauyuk

Peepeelee

Director
- Vic Sarin
Writer
- Keith Ross Leckie
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beautiful

One of films deserving attention of viewer. First, for message. For the clash between two very different civilisations. It is a significant film for fine way to explore the Inuit culture. In same measure, the acting is far to be bad and the scenes of hunt, in special narvals part, are just a delight. A film about comunity, maybe ver useful today, in age of deep loneliness. Short, just a beautiful film, not great, maybe not a memorable one, a film of words in Inuit language and a film about the nuances of interpretation of law. Short, in many senses, in profound sense, beautiful.