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Freedom Had a Price

Yurij Luhovy

1994 55 min

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A disturbing documentary of Canada's first national alien-internment operation. It tells the little-known story of Ukrainian immigrants who found themselves subject to discriminatory and repressive measures during World War I.

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A disturbing documentary of Canada's first national alien-internment operation. It tells the little-known story of Ukrainian immigrants who found themselves subject to discriminatory and repressive measures during World War I.

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Credits

• director
  Yurij Luhovy
  
• producer
  Yurij Luhovy
  
• editing
  Yurij Luhovy
  
• executive producer
  Don Haig
  
• associate producer
  Zorianna Hrycenko
  
  Kenneth Hirsch
  
• script
  Thom Richardson
  
  Oksana Rozumna
  
• camera
  Yurij Luhovy
  
  Istan Rozumny
  
  Ron Hallis
  
  Claude Forest
  
• sound
  Andrew Koster
  
  Istan Rozumny
  
• sound editing
  Patrice Rivard
  
• sound mix
  Jean-Pierre Joutel
  
  Serge Boivin
  
  Alain Rivard
  
• narrator
  Paul Almond
  
• music
  Roman Luhovy
  
  Claudette Zavada
  
  Ivan Zavada
  

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