''Gold'' is a 2013 German

Western film The Western is a genre set in the American frontier and commonly associated with folk tales of the Western United States, particularly the Southwestern United States, as well as Northern Mexico and Western Canada. It is commonly referred ...

directed by

Thomas Arslan Thomas Arslan (born 16 July 1962) is a German-Turkish film director. He directed more than ten films since 1990. Selected filmography References External links * 1962 births Living people Film directors from Lower Saxony Mass medi ...

. The film premiered in competition at the

63rd Berlin International Film Festival The 63rd annual Berlin International Film Festival took place in Berlin, Germany between 7 and 17 February 2013. Chinese film director Wong Kar-wai was announced as the President of the Jury and his film '' The Grandmaster'' was the opening fil ...

Plot

The film depicts a trek of settlers of

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and Austrian-Hungarian origin on their way through a sparsely populated part of

Canada Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering over , making it the world's second-largest country by tot ...

. The Group travels in 1899 from

Ashcroft, British Columbia Ashcroft ( 2016 population: 1,558) is a village in the Thompson Country of the Interior of British Columbia, Canada. It is downstream from the west end of Kamloops Lake, at the confluence of the Bonaparte and Thompson Rivers, and is in the ...

Dawson City Dawson City, officially the City of Dawson, is a town in the Canadian territory of Yukon. It is inseparably linked to the Klondike Gold Rush (1896–99). Its population was 1,577 as of the 2021 census, making it the second-largest town in Yuko ...

, following the Klondike Gold Rush.

Cast

Nina Hoss Nina Hoss (; born 7 July 1975) is a German stage and film actress. Early life Hoss was born in Stuttgart, West Germany. Her father, , was a German trade unionist and politician (member of the Bundestag with The Greens). Her mother, , was an ac ...

as Emily Meyer *

Uwe Bohm Uwe Bohm (born Uwe Enkelmann; 23 January 1962 – 8 April 2022) was a German actor. He appeared in more than 100 films and television shows from 1973 to 2020. Biography Director Hark Bohm engaged the 11-year-old Uwe Enkelmann for the film '' ...

as Gustav Müller * Kindall Charters as First Indian * Rosa Enskat as Maria Dietz *

Peter Kurth Peter Kurth (born 4 April 1957) is a German actor. He won the 2016 German Film Award for Best Actor for portraying a former boxer diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis in the drama film ''A Heavy Heart''. Early life Kurth was born on 4 A ...

as Wilhelm Laser * Marko Mandic as Carl Böhmer * Wolfgang Packhäuser as Otto Dietz * Lars Rudolph as Joseph Rossmann

Reception

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''s Alissa Simon described the film as an "involving, naturalistic period piece" and an homage to "late-era Western". She also appreciated the cinematography for portraying the landscapes as "ruggedly majestic". ''Cine Vues Patrick Gamble praised Nina Hoss for being "her usual captivating self" who convinces the audience she lived through a variety of strong emotions "without even flinching a muscle" but he also stated her performance was squandered because the

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offered "little in the way of entertainment or palpable suspense".

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Gold 2013 films 2013 Western (genre) films 2013 multilingual films 2010s German-language films German Western (genre) films Films set in British Columbia German multilingual films 2010s English-language films 2010s German films