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Last Days of the Arctic

Last Days of the Arctic

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Status

Released

Release Date

Aug 17, 2011

Runtime

1h 30m

Genres

Documentary

User Score

55%

Original Title

Andlit norðursins

Production Companies

Sagafilm, ARTE, ITVS, BBC, Beetz Brothers Film Production, NDR

Director

Magnús Viðar Sigurðsson

Description

Ragnar Alexsson, a.k.a. RAX, is among the most celebrated photographers in the world. His series Faces of the North are a living document of the dying cultures of the far northern reaches of the planet. His photo essays of farmers and fishermen in Icleand, and of the great hunters of Greenland give an amazing insight into everyday life of people who struggle a daily battle with the Arctic nature. A celebration of the photographer and his subjects, Last Days of the Arctic is an elegy for a disappearing landscape and the people who inhabit it.