Men Against the Arctic [SEP] cast member
Men Against the Arctic
Men Against the Arctic is a 1955 American short documentary film directed by Winston Hibler. It was part of Disney's People & Places series. It won an Oscar at the 28th Academy Awards in 1956 for Documentary Short Subject. It was also entered into the 6th Berlin International Film Festival.
Cast.
- Winston Hibler as Narrator (voice)
External links.
- BFI description of the documentary
an outbreak of typhoid and scurvy, despite there having been no previous outbreaks of typhoid being reported in the arctic. This radio message, swiftly followed by the news that hitherto loyal party member Mrs Wolfson, the doctor's wife, was being returned to the mainland as a result of counter-revolutionary activities, resulted in dispatching of a GPU agent to investigate.
The agent amassed a large quantity of evidence against Semenchuk including the murder of the doctor, rape of local Inuit women and assault against the local Inuit men and