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Donald Brittain: Filmmaker (1995)
94 min | Documentary, Biography

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Donald Brittain: Filmmaker (1995)

94 min | Documentary, Biography

A close look at one of the best documentary filmmakers in the world, this retrospective of Brittain films also offers a glimpse of the man and the restless energy that informed his work.

Directors

Kent Martin | Claude Dionne (version: French) | Dagmar Teufel (version: French)

Writer

Kent Martin

Producers

Adam Symansky | Jacques Vallée (version: French)

Composers

Alain Clavier | Chris Crilly | Larry Crosley | Eldon Rathburn

Cinematographer

Kent Nason

Editor

Hannele Halm

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29 cast members

Name	Known for
Douglas Rain Narrator (voice) Narrator (voice) See fewer	2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)
Anne Dorval Narrator (French version) (voice) Narrator (French version) (voice) See fewer	Mommy (I) (2014)
Donald Brittain Self (filmmaker) (archive footage) Self (filmmaker) (archive footage) See fewer	Fields of Sacrifice (1963)
Brigitta Brittain Self (second wife) Self (second wife) See fewer	Donald Brittain: Filmmaker (1995)
Marrin Canell Self (filmmaker) Self (filmmaker) See fewer	Paperland: The Bureaucrat Observed (1979)
Roger Hart Self (filmmaker) Self (filmmaker) See fewer	The Marco Polo: Queen of the Seas (1995)
Robert Huband Self (friend) Self (friend) See fewer	Donald Brittain: Filmmaker (1995)
Soni Idelson Self Self See fewer	Donald Brittain: Filmmaker (1995)
John Kemeny Self (producer) Self (producer) See fewer	The Best Damn Fiddler from Calabogie to Kaladar (1969)
Derek May Self (filmmaker) Self (filmmaker) See fewer	Krzysztof Wodiczko: Projections (1991)
Ann Medina Self (journalist) (archive footage) Self (journalist) (archive footage) See fewer	The Miles Ahead (1990)
Judith Merritt Self (editor) Self (editor) See fewer	The Burning Times (1990)
Sean Moore Self (friend) (as Dr. Sean Moore) Self (friend) (as Dr. Sean Moore) See fewer	Donald Brittain: Filmmaker (1995)
John N. Smith Self (filmmaker) Self (filmmaker) See fewer	Sitting in Limbo (1986)
Adam Symansky Self (filmmaker) Self (filmmaker) See fewer	The Devil at Your Heels (1981)
Thomas Van Dusen Self (writer) (as Tommy Van Dusen) Self (writer) (as Tommy Van Dusen) See fewer	One Canadian: The Political Memoirs of the Rt. Hon. John G. Diefenbaker (1976)
Norman Bethune Self (in China) (archive footage) (uncredited) Self (in China) (archive footage) (uncredited) See fewer	Bethune (1964)
Wilhelm Boger Self (Nazi war criminal) (archive footage) (uncredited) Self (Nazi war criminal) (archive footage) (uncredited) See fewer	Memorandum (1966)
Victor Capesius Self (Nazi war criminal) (archive footage) (uncredited) Self (Nazi war criminal) (archive footage) (uncredited) See fewer	Memorandum (1966)
Maury Chaykin Hal C. Banks (archive footage) (uncredited) Hal C. Banks (archive footage) (uncredited) See fewer	My Cousin Vinny (1992)
Leonard Cohen Self (archive footage) (uncredited) Self (archive footage) (uncredited) See fewer	Watchmen (2009)
Igor Gouzenko Self (concealed by hood) (archive footage) (uncredited) Self (concealed by hood) (archive footage) (uncredited) See fewer	The Iron Curtain (1948)
Oswald Kaduk Self (Nazi war criminal) (archive footage) (uncredited) Self (Nazi war criminal) (archive footage) (uncredited) See fewer	Memorandum (1966)
René Lévesque Self (with Trudeau) (archive footage) (uncredited) Self (with Trudeau) (archive footage) (uncredited) See fewer	A Song for Quebec (1988)
Sean McCann Mackenzie King (archive footage) (uncredited) Mackenzie King (archive footage) (uncredited) See fewer	Tommy Boy (1995)
Grant McLean Self (NFB, with Brittain) (archive footage) (uncredited) Self (NFB, with Brittain) (archive footage) (uncredited) See fewer	No Longer Vanishing (1955)
Tim Ralfe Self (CBC, questions Trudeau) (voice) (archive footage) (uncredited) Self (CBC, questions Trudeau) (voice) (archive footage) (uncredited) See fewer
Lord Thomson of Fleet Self (archive footage) (uncredited) Self (archive footage) (uncredited) See fewer	Never a Backward Step (1966)
Pierre Trudeau Self (during October Crisis, with Lévesque) (archive footage) (uncredited) Self (during October Crisis, with Lévesque) (archive footage) (uncredited) See fewer	Reason Over Passion (1969)