Nanook of the North (6+)
USA, 1922, 79 min.
Director: Robert Flaherty
Director: Robert Flaherty
In the fall of 1919, in Hudson Bay Robert Flaherty began to film “Nanook of the North”. Three years later, the film premiered at the Capitol Theater in New York, opening its triumphal march across the screens of the world. The film about Nanook was a new word in the cinema. It had neither tendentious dramatizations, nor the condescending glance of a "civilized nation" representative. The filmmaker discovered an innovative form of documentary based on a long-term observation of real life. In 1989, in the United States the film was included in the National Film Register, in 2002 it was named sixth out of twenty best documentaries of all times and peoples by the International Documentary Association.
Robert Flaherty
Robert Flaherty
is an American filmmaker, one of the founders and classics of world documentary cinema. From 1910, he worked as a geologist and cartographer in the vicinity of the Hudson Bay. “Nanook of the North” (1922) brought him worldwide fame.
FILMOGRAPHY
Nanook of the North, 1922; Moana, 1926; Man of Aran, 1934; The Land, 1941.
USA, 1922, 79 min.
Director: Robert Flaherty
Director: Robert Flaherty
In the fall of 1919, in Hudson Bay Robert Flaherty began to film “Nanook of the North”. Three years later, the film premiered at the Capitol Theater in New York, opening its triumphal march across the screens of the world. The film about Nanook was a new word in the cinema. It had neither tendentious dramatizations, nor the condescending glance of a "civilized nation" representative. The filmmaker discovered an innovative form of documentary based on a long-term observation of real life. In 1989, in the United States the film was included in the National Film Register, in 2002 it was named sixth out of twenty best documentaries of all times and peoples by the International Documentary Association.