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Mixed Greens Monthly Screenings Presents: Prize of the Pole
Prize of the Pole, The
Staffan Julen
Sweden, documentary, 2006
80 mins. (Digi Beta)
(English and Greenlandic with English Subtitles)
When explorer Robert Peary sojourned to the Pole he not only left a historic legacy but a personal one with tragic implications for the people whose lives he had altered forever. Prize of the Pole follows the sombre contemporary journey of one of Peary’s Inuit descendants who attempts to reconcile the motives and actions of his white ancestor’s quest for glory in an imperial age. This unique film intersects the lives of three men over time and space revealing their own attempts to come to terms with the opposing cultural ties within them. A profoundly moving multi-textured and layered story leaves one confounded by the racist attitudes displayed and the lives destroyed in the wake of the Prize of the Pole.
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