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Winter in the Blood is a 2013 American film written and directed by brothers Alex Smith and Andrew J. Smith and produced by Native American author Sherman Alexie. The film was based on the debut novel Winter in the Blood (1974) by noted author James Welch, who was a leader of the Native American renaissance in literature.
Aug 20, 2014 · Winter in the Blood: Directed by Alex Smith, Andrew J. Smith. With Chaske Spencer, David Morse, Gary Farmer, Julia Jones. Virgil First Raise wakes with a shiner and a hangover in a roadside ditch on the stark but beautiful plains of Montana.
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- Drama
- Alex Smith, Andrew J. Smith
- 2014-08-20
Winter in the Blood is a hauntingly beautiful film that is true to the lyrical and unflinching spirit of James Welch’s classic 1974 novel of Native American life.
Winter in the Blood is the debut novel of James Welch. It was published by Harper and Row's Native American Publishing Program in 1974. Set on the Fort Belknap Indian Reservation in north-central Montana during the late 1960s, Winter in the Blood follows a nameless Blackfeet and Gros Ventre (A'aninin) man's episodic journey to piece ...
- James Welch
- 1974
Aug 19, 2014 · The new film Winter in the Blood is based on a landmark of literature from the American West: a novel, published to critical acclaim in 1974, about a 30-something American Indian man living...
- Howie Movshovitz
Virgil wakes up in a ditch and begins a series of inebriated encounters with the mysterious Airplane Man.
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- Drama
Virgil First Raise wakes with a shiner and a hangover in a roadside ditch on the stark but beautiful plains of Montana. As he rises to face the day he sees a vision of his father lying dead at his feet. Impossible-- his father froze to death in a snowdrift years earlier.
