KUMU DOC : PÖFF

The Prize of the Pole

Local title
Pooluse hind
Title in Russian
Pooluse hind
Director
Staffan Julén
Country
Denmark, Sweden, Switzerland
Year
2006
Programme
Kumu Documentary
Subject
society

The story revolves around the tension between Robert E. Peary, the American who spent 23 years among the polar Eskimos in order to conquer the North Pole, and Minik, the sole Eskimo survivor of Peary’s exhibition, whom Peary put on exhibit in New York in 1897.

Introduction by the director Staffan Julen

Director
Staffan Julén
Runtime
Language
English