If any of you live in Regina, Saskatchewan, have in mind that George Ryga's Hungry Hills will be screened at Regina Public Library this Friday on May 14.
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Obviously, the film was shot in and around Regina and also Qu’Appelle Valley, Saskatchewan. The film was adapted from a novel written by George Ryga (1932-1985), a Canadian writer.
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First of all, Hungry Hills takes place in 1954. After two years in a home for boys, Snit Mandolin (Keir Gilchrist), 15,
returns home to his seemingly unhinged and reclusive aunt Matilda (Gabrielle
Rose). Defeated by a community that still shuns him, confronted by the
impossibility of surviving on his aunt’s farm, Snit falls in with Johnny Swift
(Alexander De Jordy), 16, another outcast.
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Johnny makes moonshine and sells it through a local bootlegger. The boys work together and become fast friends. And Snit finds first love with a free-spirited local girl, Robin, 16 (Alexia Fast). Their adventure is interrupted by the enigmatic and unpredictable Roy Kane (John Pyper-Ferguson), the district’s private cop, who took Snit away two years ago and will now use the boys to get to the bootlegger. Dogged by Kane, betrayed by a bootlegger and plagued by the ghosts of the past, the boys’ partnership ends – their friendship broken.
Alone once more in the community that rejected him, Snit comes to a violent
crossroads.
Finally, The Cultural Post can't tell if George Ryga's Hungry Hills will have a roll out in other Canadian cities.
