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Fires of Envy

Fires of Envy

| 29 min

This short film is a dramatization of Canadian author W.O. Mitchell's penetrating story about the racial prejudice encountered by a Polish immigrant farmer in a rural Saskatchewan community. Presented with the incisiveness characteristic of Mitchell's Jake and the Kid radio series, this film story employs homespun events of a farming community to lay bare some universal truths about the unthinking discrimination practiced against a man who is different from his English-speaking fellow farmers.


Credits
  • director
    Don Haldane
  • producer
    Julian Biggs
  • script
    W.O. Mitchell
  • photography
    John Foster
  • sound
    Erik Nielsen
  • editing
    Tony Lower
  • sound editing
    Kathleen Shannon
  • cast
    John Vernon

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