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Northern Lights is a american film of genre Drama directed by Rob Nilsson released in USA on 17 november 1978 with Susan Lynch

Northern Lights (1978)

Northern Lights
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Released in USA 17 november 1978
Length 1h35
Directed by ,    
OriginUSA
Genres Drama,    Historical
Rating70% 3.514123.514123.514123.514123.51412

Northern Lights was a 1978 independent film which dramatizes the founding of the Nonpartisan League in North Dakota, a Populist political movement which took place in the American Midwest in the early 1900s.

The film was produced, directed, written and edited by John Hanson and Rob Nilsson, and starred Joe Spano, Robert Behlen, Sue Lynch and Michel Wagner. It was filmed on location in North Dakota, during the fall and winter of 1977, and utilized many locals as extras.

Due to the extreme cold winter weather, with temperatures reaching as low as -40, many of the outdoor scenes had to be shot in short bursts, as cameras and other equipment would only function for a short time, before freezing up.

The film was awarded the Caméra d'Or at the 1980 Cannes Film Festival for best first feature film (defined as "the first feature film for theatrical screening (whatever the format; fiction, documentary or animation) of 60 minutes or more in length, by a director who has not made another film of 60 minutes or more in length and released theatrically."

Synopsis

Après l'anniversaire de sa sœur, Roberto quitte sa ville natale de Michoacán, au Mexique, et franchit illégalement la frontière pour tenter de faire fortune aux États-Unis.

Actors

Susan Lynch

(Inga Olsness)Joe Spano

(John Sorensen)
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