Nanook of the North

Plot Summary

The film is about Nanoka was a new word in cinema. It was not biased adaptations, common to most ethnographic paintings of the early twentieth century, and there was no condescending opinion of the representative of "civilized nation". The Director showed the Eskimos not down, but the way they saw themselves. He revealed in this work, an innovative form of a documentary film based on the long kinonablyudenie real life

Did You Know?

The huge success of "Nanook of the North" has determined the development of documentary films worldwide and has had a great impact on filmmakers of all countries.

I myself did not know about his global fame — he died of starvation in the frozen wilderness shortly before the premiere of the film.

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