Screenings
August 28 16:00
DEBED VILLAGE ADMINISTRATION BUILDING
Nanook of the North
USA, 1922, 79’
Silent film
Director: Robert J. Flaherty
Scriptwriters: Robert J. Flaherty, Francis H. Flaherty
Producers: Robert J. Flaherty, John Revillon
Cinematographer: Robert J. Flaherty
Editors: Herbert Edwards, Robert J. Flaherty & Charles Gelb
Production Company: Revillon Frères
This is the film that first dazzled audiences in the 1920s, making a huge commercial profit and significantly influencing further developments in the art of documentary filmmaking. Even though almost a century has passed since the 1922 premiere of the film, Nanook still amazes with the craftsmanship and innovative approach of its author and the astonishing depiction of the life of its eponymous protagonist Eskimo Nanook, and his family on the icy plains around Hudson Bay.