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Strangers at the Door
197728 min 2 secFilm: Fiction
Direction: John Howe
Production: John HoweMaxine SamuelsRoman Kroitor
Script: Nika Rylski
Produced by the National Film Board of Canada in collaboration with the CBC and ATEC Canada.
It had been a hard journey for immigrants Jan Laluckey and his family. But on arrival in Québec, the New World, all their hopes for a new and better life were dampened when immigration officials refused to allow Kasia, Jan's daughter, to remain. During a routine medical examination it was found that Kasia had contracted an infectious eye disease. In the end she was separated from her family and sent back to Europe alone.
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Subject categories
- Cultural Diversity and Multiculturalism > European OriginsHistorical PerspectivesImmigration Experience and Social Adjustment
- Families > Health and IllnessImmigrant Experience
- History - Canada - 1867-1919 > Immigration and Settlement
- Law and Crime > Legal System, Personnel and Proceedings
- History > Canada 1867-1914
- Geography > Human Geography
- Family Studies/Home Economics > Parenting
- History and Citizenship Education > Population and Settlement (1608-present)
Credits
- director
- John Howe
- producer
- John Howe
- Maxine Samuels
- Roman Kroitor
- script
- Nika Rylski
- camera
- Savas Kalogeras
- sound
- Jacques Drouin
- editing
- John Kramer
- sound editing
- Bernard Bordeleau
- music
- Larry Crosley
- cast
- George Popovich
- Elaine Reade
- Maruska Stankova
- Vlasta Vrana