Mistress Madeleine

Dec 12, 1986

0h 57m

★ 0.0

Overview

Part of the Daughters of the Country series, this film, set in the 1850s, unfolds against the backdrop of the Hudson's Bay Company's monopoly of the fur trade. In protest, some Métis engage in trade 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.

Genres

History

Drama

Production Companies

ONF | NFB

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Cast

Madeleine

Mireille Deyglun

Charles

Neil Munro

Joseph

Harry Daniels

Kirk

Alan Williams

MacGregor

Victor Cowie

Sara

Winona Stevenson

Loon

Makka Kleist

Phillipe

Kennetch Charlette

Robert

Dennell Swampy

Louis

Jerry Martin

Vicar

Peter Jordan

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