Release Date
📅
Original Release
June 6, 1990
1h 36m
Where the Spirit Lives (1990)
⭐ 6.296 min
Overview
In 1937, a young First Nations girl named Ashtecome is kidnapped along with several other children from a village as part of a deliberate Canadian policy to force First Nations children to abandon their culture in order to be assimilated into white Canadian/British society. Taken to a boarding school where she's forced to adopt Western Euro-centric ways and learn English, often under brutal treatment, she has the support of one sympathetic white teacher.
Director
Bruce Pittman
Department: Directing
⭐Popularity: 1.0
Cast
Michelle St. John
Komi / Amelia
⭐0.8
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Kim Bruisedhead Fox
Anataki
⭐0.5
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Marianne Jones
Komi's Mother
⭐0.7
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Gus Chief Moon
Ka - moos - ee
⭐0.5
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Clayton Julian
Pita / Abraham
⭐0.6
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Margaret Cozry
Grandmother
⭐0.5
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Marge Fox
Anataki's Mother
⭐0.4
Ann-Marie MacDonald
Kathleen
⭐0.8
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Sean Mulcahy
Priest
⭐0.7
Sam Malkin
Mr. Crawford
⭐0.7
Genres
Drama
Production Companies
Atlantis Films
CBCAmazing Spirit Productions Ltd.
