The brave, new world in the form of America promised the settlers of that time freedom and the fulfillment of their dreams, but also hid the horrifying brutality of survival. This is the theme of National Geographic's new mini-series Barskins, a historical drama depicting the mysterious massacre of European settlers in 1690 in New France, in what is now Canada.
The series, based on the New York Times bestseller of the same name by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Prue, began airing on August 9 and will air every Sunday at 22pm with two back-to-back episodes. The tragic event it deals with threatened to plunge that part of North America into civil war, as many parties were suspected in this complicated conflict, which was sponsored by the English and the Hudson's Bay Company, in cooperation with the native tribe of the Mohicans, who wanted to expel the French from the disputed territory. territories.
The series by Elwood Reed, produced by Scott Radin and Fox 21 Television Studios, will show viewers life on the wild frontiers of the new world towards the very end of the stormy 17th century.
The plot of "Okorjelih" is set in Vobik, a small immigrant settlement in today's Canadian province of Quebec, where the Catholic Church sent a Jesuit priest to convert the natives. The French, interested in this territory, decided on a different approach, so they sent servants and so-called "king's daughters" to the same place - unmarried women and widows who were paid to settle in the areas then called New France, in order to find husbands and start families. and helped the colonies prosper. This group of apostates, rebels and innocent souls had to skillfully build a future torn between harsh life, interests and intricate relationships at the crossroads of civilizations of the new continent.
Settlers who have come to seek fortune in the wastes of the merciless New World - homeless men, child beggars, greedy merchants and poor women hoping to marry rich and settle down - are faced with harsh realities that shatter their dreams as they try to find its place. They are greeted by a dark and cold environment, inhabited by native peoples, who look upon their arrival with contempt and the painful realization that the newcomers are the guarantee of their existence," said executive producer Elwood Reed.
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