Heartland is a 1979 American drama directed by Richard Pearce, starring Rip Torn and Conchata Ferrell, based on Elinore Pruitt Stewart's 1914 memoir Letters of a Woman Homesteader. Set in Wyoming in 1910, it follows a widow and her daughter who travel to work on a remote ranch, where the widow marries the ranch owner and the couple endures livestock losses and the death of their newborn son. It shared the Golden Bear for Best Film at the 1980 Berlin International Film Festival. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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Heartland is a 1979 American drama directed by Richard Pearce, starring Rip Torn and Conchata Ferrell, based on Elinore Pruitt Stewart's 1914 memoir Letters of a Woman Homesteader.
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the film shared the Golden Bear award for Best Film at the 30th Berlin International Film Festival
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Heartland is a 1979 American film, directed by Richard Pearce, starring Rip Torn and Conchata Ferrell.
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