Movie Details
Original Language:English
Production Companies:Eden Films
The Prize of the Pole on the Web:Official Website
Cast & Crew
T
Torben Forsberg
Cinematography
C
Carina Ørnfeldt Mikkelsen
Cinematography
The Prize of the Pole (2006)
Plot
Three men and their lifelong attempts to reconcile the opposing cultural ties within them The story unfolds in 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 survivor out of six Eskimos who were put on the New York exhibition in 1897 by Peary In the films contemporary scenes the young polar Eskimo Robert E Peary II a greatgrandchild of the Arctic explorer goes on an expedition into his ancestors past which takes him from Greenland to America It changes Roberts view on himself and his family history forever