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GOLD
Summer 1898. Canada during the Klondike Gold Rush. Emily
Meyer joins a group of seven German American immigrants. Together
they embark on the long journey to the newly discovered
gold fields in Dawson. Brought together by shady businessman
Wilhelm Laser’s advertisement, the members of the group put
it all on the line to change their miserable lives.
Recommended by Wilhelm Laser, they decide to take the
Ashcroft Trail, a route through the Canadian interior. With
horses and a covered wagon, they take off without an exact idea
of the dangers and strains that this journey has in store for
them. Hardly any of them will have known that from their point
of departure in Ashcroft, the distance to Dawson was more than
2,500 km.
Full of hope, the prospectors begin their journey. The first part
of the journey to Quesnel is relatively untroubled. But before too
long, problems begin to arise. The terrain becomes ever more
difficult to negotiate. They soon literally loose track as the supposedly
marked and fully constructed path disappears before
their eyes. Their route leads them along through a hostile and
untapped wilderness. One by one, their exhausted pack horses
die. The strenuous journey and internal clashes begin to tear
the group apart. Now Emily Meyer, who appeared to be the most
fragile member of the group at the beginning of the journey,
proves herself to be one of the most dogged and enduring in
view of the many challenges. She does not know exactly what
the future will bring. Nevertheless, of one thing she is certain:
there is no way that she will return to the life she left behind.
Driven by a dream and the hope which it has inspired for a better
life, the decimated group works through the rough environment
toward their goal, a goal that seems to be further removed
from them with every step they take.
Genre Drama Category Feature Year of Production 2013
Director Director Thomas Arslan Screenplay Thomas Arslan
Director of Photography Patrick Orth Cast Nina Hoss, Marko
Mandić, Peter Kurth, Uwe Bohm, Lars Rudolph, Rosa Enskat,
Wolfgang Packhäuser Producers Florian Koerner von Gustorf,
Michael Weber Executive Producer Henrik Meyer Production
Company Schramm Film Koerner & Weber/Berlin, in co-production
with BR/Munich, Degeto Film/Frankfurt, WDR/Cologne,
ARTE/Strasbourg, in cooperation with Red Cedar Film Gold/
Vancouver Length 113 min Format 35 mm, DCP, color, cs
Original Version German Subtitled Version English Festivals
Berlin 2013 (In Competition) With backing from Medienboard
Berlin-Brandenburg, BKM, German Federal Film Board,
German Federal Film Fund, ILB
THOMAS ARSLAN was born in 1962 in Braunschweig and
spent four years during his schooling in Ankara/Turkey. He
studied Germanics and History in Munich and Film at the
German Film & Television Academy (DFFB) in Berlin. He has
been working as a writer and filmmaker since 1992. His films
include MACH DIE MUSIK LEISER (1994), the trilogy,
GESCHWISTER (1996), DEALER (1998) and A FINE DAY (DER
SCHÖNE TAG, 2000), IM SCHATTEN (2009), and GOLD (2013).
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