Le sang des chasseurs - French title
Le sang de chasseur - French title
Sangue de Cacador - Brazilian title
The Fiddler - English title
Blood of the Hunter - U.S.A. title
A 1994 French, Canadian co-production [Ellipse
Programme/Gaumont Television (Paris), Cinevideo Plus (Montreal)]
Producers: Justine Heroux, Robert Rea
Director: Gilles Carl
Story: James Oliver Curwood
Teleplay: Gilles Carl
Photography: Jean-Claude Aumont [color]
Music: Jean Delorme
Running time: 93 minutes
Cast:
Blake - Michael Biehn
Yan Thoreau - Gabriel Arcand
Marie Thoreau - Alexandra Vandernoot
Jean de Gravois - François-Eric Gendron
Fitzgerald - Edward Meeks
Pastamoo - Vincent Cassell (Vincent Crochon)
Auctioneer - Joseph Rezwin
Malone - Edwin Gerard
Veuve Breault - Maïté Nahyr
Tommy - Olivier Siou
Iowaka - Glenda Stevens
Kereesin - Raine Pare-Coull
Young Indians - Karine Wawanolet, Angie O’Bamsawin
Corporal Blake - Pascal Guegan
Gold hunters - Laurent Thomas, Guy Di Rigo
François Breault - André Cagnard
Indian chief - Marco Bacon
John Cummins - Pierre Laplace
Stunts: David McKeown
This TV film is one of the episodes in the French,
Canadian co-produced mini-series called “Tales of the Wild”.
In this period thriller set near the turn of the century,
Jan Thoreau is a Canadian trapper who lives with his wife Marie in a small
community in the wilderness not far from Hudson Bay. Blake is a disturbed
drifter who has murdered a man and has found a way to frame Jan for his crime.
Jan is out tending to his traps when an Indian friend with psychic talents
tells him Marie is in grave danger. Jan hurries back, but he has no idea just
how serious matters are until he arrives home -- Jan is wanted by the law for a
crime he didn't commit, while Blake is hiding out in his home, and has taken
Marie hostage.
The film had a lot of potential featuring a great plot,
wonderful location scenes and the dealing with both the Cree and Metis
cultures. But it came across as very stilted with most of the drama lost
through the poor direction of Gilles Carl. Michael Biehn and Alexandra
Vandernoot are excellent but the rest of the cast are as wooden as the trees in
the forest surrounding the production.
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