Hugh MacLennan: Portrait of a Writer
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A portrait of and tribute to the author who, with the publication of Barometer Rising in 1941, set a precedent in Canadian literature by writing about Canadian topics and places and, in so doing, paved the way for a thriving national literary movement. Through the use of still photographs, archival footage and interviews, this documentary traces seven decades of MacLennan's public and private life--as a young boy in Nova Scotia, brought up in a strict Presbyterian family of Scottish descent, as a Rhodes scholar at Oxford, as a professor at McGill University, and as the author of seven novels and numerous essays. Also featured in the film are several readings from MacLennan's work.
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Edited by Janice BrownShot by Vic SarinScored by Chris Crilly
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13 unique people credited
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Robert A Duncan
as Narrated by
Alan Maitland
as MacLennan's prose read by
Wilhelm Bruckner
as Self - with Hitler at HJ Rally
Morley Callaghan
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Hugh Maclennan
as Self
Constance Beresford Howe
as Self - Friend
Elspeth Cameron
as Self - Biographer
Frances Maclennan
as Self - Sister
Rudolf Hess
as Self - with Hitler at HJ Rally
Heinrich Himmler
as Self - with Hitler at SA Rally
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