Gold

  • Adventure
  • Drama
  • Western
2/9/2013
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Canada, the summer of 1898. A group of German settlers travel towards the far north in covered wagons with packhorses and their few possessions in tow. The seven travellers set off from Ashcroft, the final railway station. Along with their leader, flamboyant businessman Wilhelm Laser, they are hoping to find their fortune in the recently discovered goldfields of Dawson, but they have no idea of the stresses and dangers which lie ahead on their 2,500 kilometre journey. Before long uncertainty, cold weather and exhaustion begin to take their toll and conflicts escalate. The journey leads these men and women deeper and deeper into a menacing wilderness. (Berlinale.de)

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      • Wuchak

        Gritty hardships of traveling in the Far North during the Klondike Gold Rush

        RELEASED IN 2013 and written & directed by Thomas Arslan, "Gold covers events in 1898 when a single woman (Nina Hoss) joins a small group of other prospectors heading north through Canada to the Klondike gold fields near Dawson City. Their numbers dwindle as they face challenging hardships.

        My title blurb says it all. Just as Meeks Cutoff (2010) covered the adversities of traveling in the late 1800s on an alternative route of the Oregon Trail and The Homesman (2014) covered journeying from western Nebraska to Iowa, so Gold features the challenges of traveling from Ashcroft, BC, where the train tracks end, to Dawson City in the Yukon territories.

        Needless ...

        May 2, 2018

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