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Year: 1934
UK: Park Circus
Cast: Colman 'Tiger' King, Maggie Dirrane, Michael Dirrane,
Pat Mullin, Patch 'Red Beard' Ruadh, Patcheen Faherty, Tommy
O'Rourke, Stephen Dirrane
Director: Robert Flaherty
Country: UK
UK: 77 mins
UK Certificate: U
UK Release Date: 11 March 2011 (Limited Release)
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Synopsis
Influential US documentary filmmaker, Robert Flaherty, spent three
years making this celebrated film shot in black and white. In the
1930s life on the Aran Islands was hard.
Families were forced to fight against the elements for their
livelihoods. It was the custom of the men to await the annual
migration of basking sharks. If caught, they would provide a family
with enough oil for a year, but to catch them meant setting sail in
a flimsy boat. Could it protect the fishermen against the pounding
force of the ocean?
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