Hugh MacLennan: Portrait of a Writer

Hugh MacLennan: Portrait of a Writer (1983)

Documentary

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.

Director: Robert A. Duncan

Casts

	Hugh MacLennan as Himself
	Robert A. Duncan as Narrator (voice)
	Alan Maitland as Reader (voice)

Crew