Critics of the time called "Milak, der Grönlandjäger" the German answer to Robert Flaherty’s "Nanook of the North" (1922). Filmed largely on location in Greenland and Norway’s Spitsbergen archipelago, the film combines impressive landscape footage with ethnographic observation.
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15 people
Ruth Weyher
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Lotte Lorring
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Arnold Fanck
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Albert Benitz
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Georg Asagaroff
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Iris Arlan
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Richard Angst
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Armin Petersen
Bernhard Villinger
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Nils Focksen
Sepp Allgeier
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Helmer Hannsen
Georg Asagaroff Director · Bernhard Villinger Director Armin Petersen Writer
First release June 5, 1928 · Produced in Germany · Production Universum Film (UFA)
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UFA
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Universum Film (UFA)
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Germany
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Original language
German
Spoken on screen
No dialogue
Release dates
Germany · June 5, 1928
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No release date listed for United States.
Portugal
January 7, 1931
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