Qivitoq is a 1956 Danish film directed by Erik Balling and starring Poul Reichhardt and Astrid Villaume. An intense romantic drama, the movie was filmed entirely on location in Greenland. It was nominated both for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and for the Palme D'Or at the 1957 Cannes Film Festival. A young teacher, Eva Nygaard , arrives in Greenland from Denmark to surprise her fiance, the Doctor Erik Halsøe, but is crushed to find he has not waited for her and he is about to be married to his assisting nurse. Eva travels to a small fishing village to await the next... ship back to Denmark. There she enters into a tense and often confrontational relationship with Jens , a quiet moody Dane who manages a trading company outpost. Meanwhile, Jens is trying to persuade a Greenlander named Pavia to become a company fisherman, despite Pavia's fear of alienating his fellow villagers and upsetting the spirit, Qivitoq. After Eva helps Jens treat a boy who has been attacked by dogs, Jens opens to her and realizes he loves her. Before he can tell her, he learns that Pavia in his new boat is in danger.
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| Release date: | 1956 |
| Directed by: | Erik Balling |
| Runtime: | 118 Minutes |
| Editor: | Carsten Dahl, Carsten Dahl |
| Music by: | Svend Erik Tarp |
| Cinematography: | Poul Pedersen |
| Screenplay by: | Leck Fischer |