Gritty hardships of traveling in the Far North during the Klondike Gold Rush RELEASED IN 2013 and written & directed by Thomas Arslan, "Gold” covers events in 1898 when a single woman (Nina Hoss) joins a small group of other prospectors heading north through Canada to the Klondike gold fields near Dawson City. Their numbers dwindle as they face challenging hardships. My title blurb says it all. Just as “Meek’s Cutoff” (2010) covered the adversities of traveling in the late 1800s on an alternative route of the Oregon Trail and “The Homesman” (2014) covered journeying from western Nebraska…
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