Silence of the North

Director Allan King's 1981 drama, based on true events, stars Ellen Burstyn as a strong-willed woman struggling to survive with her family in the Canadian wilderness.

• Allan KingDirector
• Patricia Louisianna KnopScreenplay

• Ellen BurstynOlive Frederickson
• Gordon PinsentJohn Frederickson
• Tom SkerrittWalter Reamer
• Colin FoxArthur Herriot
• Jennifer McKinneyLittle Olive Reamer
• Donna DobrijevicVala Reamer
• Jeff BanksLewis Reamer
• David FoxLea Goodwin
• Frank C. TurnerYoung Man