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Oct 23, 1981 · Based on the biography of Olive Fredrickson, It tells of her life as a girl, then a trapper's wife and later a widow with three small children surviving under rugged pioneer conditions in northern Alberta Canada from the early 1900's through to the Depression.
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- Allan King
- 1981-10-23
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Silence of the North is a 1981 semi-autobiographical Canadian film of author Olive Frederickson, taken from the book of the same name. The film stars Ellen Burstyn as Olive, Tom Skerritt as her first husband Walter Reamer who was killed, and Gordon Pinsent as her second husband John Frederickson.
Apr 10, 2008 · Awesome film about a rambler (Tom Skerrit) and his wife (Ellen Burstyn) and how they tried finding a home in the cold north of Canada.
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Based on the biography of Olive Fredrickson, It tells of her life as a girl, then a trapper's wife and later a widow with three small children surviving unde...
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Jan 1, 2000 · When her attempt to run a farm single-handedly, after her husband's death, threatened to end in ruin, Fredrickson walked 40 miles alone to the nearest village, in a desperate attempt to obtain food for her starving family by bartering against future crops.
- Olive A. Fredrickson, Ben East
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A trapper's (Tom Skerritt) bride (Ellen Burstyn) joins him and starts a family in the harsh wilderness of early 1900s Canada.
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