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Mistress Madeleine
198657 min 1 secFilm: Fiction
Direction: Aaron Kim Johnston
Production: Norma BaileyChes Yetman
Script: Anne CameronAaron Kim Johnston
Produced by the National Film Board of Canada with the participation of the Manitoba Jobs Fund and the Manitoba Government Employees' Association.
Set in the 1850s, Mistress Madeleine unfolds against the backdrop of the Hudson's Bay Company's monopoly of the fur trade. In protest, some Métis are trading with the Americans. Madeleine, the Métis common-law wife of a Hudson's Bay Company clerk, is torn between loyalty to her husband and loyalty to her brother, a freetrader. Even more shattering, a change in company policy destroys Madeleine's happy and secure life, forcing her to re-evaluate her identity.
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Subject categories
- Women > Cultural GroupsDiscrimination, Stereotyping and Equal RightsHistorical Perspectives
- Indigenous Peoples in Canada (First Nations and Métis) > Family LifeFur Trades, Hunting and TrappingHistoryPrairiesSocial ProblemsWomen
- History - Canada - Pre-1867 > Fur TradesIndigenous PeoplesWomen
Credits
- director
- Aaron Kim Johnston
- producer
- Norma Bailey
- executive producer
- Ches Yetman
- script
- Anne Cameron
- Aaron Kim Johnston
- photography
- Ian Elkin
- sound
- Leon Johnson
- editing
- Judy Krupanszky
- Norma Bailey
- sound editing
- Gloria Thorsteinson
- Wojtek Klis
- re-recording
- Clive Perry
- music
- Pierre Guérin
- cast
- Ken Charlette
- Victor Cowie
- Harry Daniels
- Mireille Deyglun
- Makka Kleist
- Jerry Martin
- Neil Munro
- Winona Stevenson
- Dennell Swampy
- Alan Williams
Awards
- Gemini Award for Best Pay Television Dramatic SeriesGemini Awards