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Catalogue Number:  NFB522732
Producer:  National Film Board Of Canada
Producers:  Caroline Leaf, David Verrall, Douglas MacDonald
Directors:  Sheldon Cohen
Producing Agencies:  National Film Board of Canada (Montreal)
Subject:  Animation, Architecture, Canadian Literature, Canadian Social Issues, Diversity, Literature, Religious Studies, Social Issues, Social Studies, Women's Studies
Language:  English
Country Of Origin:  Canada
Copyright Year:  1983
Running Time:  12:50


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Based on a short story by Canadian author Wilma Riley, this animation film is about ethnic prejudice in all its blind viciousness. Mrs. Cherwak is Polish and owns a cow. Mrs. Meuser is a German with entrenched notions of cleanliness. She does not appreciate the cow's inevitable by-product. The film describes their conflict and its curious resolution over coffee and mincemeat pie. While the author chose to write about the Germans and the Poles she grew up with on the outskirts of Regina, the situation she describes could apply anywhere in the world.


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