The Diviners is a TV movie filmed in Manitoba, Canada. It is a novel written by Margaret Laurence

Margaret Laurence

Jean Margaret Laurence, CC was a Canadian novelist and short story writer, one of the major figures in Canadian literature.- Early years :...

 based on the 1974 Governor General's Award-winning novel, The Diviners brings Margaret Laurence's Manawaka to life and is the epic culmination of the series.

Plot

The film follows Morag Gunn from her tough childhood in Manitoba through to middle-age—all the while showing Morag's search for love. Along the way, we meet various characters from the Manawaka series and catch a glimpse into the many ways that society creates outcasts. The film also explores mythology, as shown through Christie's Scottish Piper Gunn, Métis

Métis people (Canada)

The Métis are one of the Aboriginal peoples in Canada who trace their descent to mixed First Nations parentage. The term was historically a catch-all describing the offspring of any such union, but within generations the culture syncretised into what is today a distinct aboriginal group, with...

 hero Jules Tonnerre, Morag's novel and songs by Skinner and Piquette. As Margaret Laurence's crowning achievement, The Diviners shows that truth and love can be "divined" in many ways.

Cast

• Marion Bennett  as Morag (13 years old)
• Jay Brazeau
  Jay Brazeau
  Jay Brazeau is a notable Canadian actor and voice actor. He was born in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.-Career:His credits include voicing Richard Condie's Oscar-nominated animated short La Salla. He also appeared in two of the first season episodes of Highlander: The Series in 1992...
  
    as Gus
• Lee J. Campbell  as Lachlan
• Nicola Cavendish
  Nicola Cavendish
  Nicola Cavendish is an English-born Canadian theatre and film actress. She has won a Genie Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role for the 1991 film The Grocer's Wife and a Gemini Award nomination for 1998 film The Sleep Room.Cavendish was born in Cirencester, United Kingdom,...
  
   as Ella
• Victor Cowie  as Dr. McCleod
• Diane Douglass  as Prin
• Don Francks
  Don Francks
  Donald Harvey Francks or Iron Buffalo is a Canadian actor, vocalist and jazz musician.- Life and work :Francks was born in Vancouver, British Columbia. He is a drummer, poet, native nations champion, motorcyclist, author and peace activist...
  
    as Royland
• Ellen-Ray Hennessey  as Fan
• Tom Jackson
  Tom Jackson (actor)
  Thomas Dale Jackson, OC , is a Canadian born Métis actor and singer perhaps best known for the annual series of Christmas concerts, called the Huron Carole, which he created and starred in for 17 years...
  
    as Jules
• Geordie Johnson as Brooke
• Jennifer Podemski  as Pique
• Wayne Robson
  Wayne Robson
  Wayne Robson was a Canadian television, film and stage actor best known for playing the part of Mike Hamar, an ex-convict and sometime thief, on the Canadian sitcom The Red Green Show from 1993 to 2006, as well as in the 2002 film Duct Tape Forever.Robson was born in Vancouver, British Columbia...
  
    as Christie
• Sonja Smits
  Sonja Smits
  Sonja Smits is a television actress who has played roles in many television series, including Falcon Crest, Airwolf, Odyssey 5, The Outer Limits, Street Legal, Traders and The Eleventh Hour.She also played Bianca O'Blivion in the David Cronenberg horror movie, Videodrome.Sonja went to Bell High...
  
  as Morag