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True North is a British film of genre Drama released in USA on 11 september 2006 with Martin Compston

True North (2006)

True North
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Released in USA 11 september 2006
Length 1h36
Genres Drama
Rating67% 3.3939253.3939253.3939253.3939253.393925

True North is a 2006 Scottish drama film directed by Steve Hudson and starring Martin Compston, Peter Mullan, Gary Lewis and Steven Robertson as sailors aboard a Scottish fishing boat smuggling Chinese into the United Kingdom.

The film premiered at the Toronto Film Festival in Canada on 11 September 2006 and was also shown at the Max Ophüls Festival in Germany, the Karlovy Vary Film Festival in the Czech Republic, the Copenhagen International Film Festival in Denmark and the Ourense International Film Festival in Spain.

Synopsis

The film begins showing a group of farmers from China's Fujian province speaking to a Snakehead (a smuggler of people), telling him the false stories they will use for sympathy in the West.

Actors

Martin Compston

(Sean)Peter Mullan

(Riley)Gary Lewis

(Skipper)Steven Robertson

(Koch)Hark Bohm

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