Hugh MacLennan: Portrait of a Writer (2024)

ALL 11/26/2024 (en) Documentary 58 Min
  • Release
    11/26/2024
  • Production
    ONF | NFB
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  • Original title
    Hugh MacLennan: Portrait of a Writer
  • Original language
    en
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
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Overview

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.

  1. Robert A. Duncan

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Editor

  4. Producer



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Hugh MacLennan: Portrait of a Writer (2024) 58 Min

ALL 11/26/2024 (en)
Documentary
  • Release 11/26/2024
  • Production
    ONF | NFB
  • Original title Hugh MacLennan: Portrait of a Writer
  • en
  • Revenue0.00

Overview

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.

  1. Robert A. Duncan

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Editor

  4. Producer