Résumé

Ce court métrage documentaire relate de façon extrêmement saisissante la tragédie au cours de laquelle 132 hommes se trouvent prisonniers des glaces durant une violente tempête de neige au large des côtes de Terre-Neuve à l’hiver 1914. Soixante-dix-huit d’entre eux mourront gelés sur la banquise. Témoignages de survivants, documents d’archives percutants, animation ingénieuse et marionnettes s’unissent ici pour recréer leur calvaire.

This short animation is a remarkably vivid account of the 1914 tragedy in which 132 men were stranded on the ice during a severe snowstorm off the coast of Newfoundland. 78 men froze to death on the pack ice. In the spring of 1914, the last of the wooden seal hunting ships in a steel-dominated industry was the Newfoundland, manned by men from across the province. The ship was unable to reach a seal pack due to its lack of ice-breaking power, and 132 men were ordered off the boat and onto the ice to hunt. The ship had no radio equipment, and the men spent two unbearable nights on the ice. Survivor testimony, striking archival materials, weather visualizations, inventive animation and puppetry are seamlessly blended to recreate this harrowing ordeal.

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