Project Detail

Natan

Synopsis

Natan tells a story of turn-of-the-century Paris, the dawn of cinema, and how one man’s extraordinary talents were turned against him, and his name blackened. A pioneer of cinema was imprisoned, defamed as a pornographer and eventually handed over to the Nazis. How did this happen? And why did it take seventy years to set the record straight?

Details

Year: 2013
Type of project: Features
Running time: 66 mins
Director: Paul Duane, David Cairns
Producer: Paul Duane
Executive Producer: Craig McCall
Editor: Eoin McDonagh
Screenwriter: David Cairns
Director of Photography: Scott Ward
Production Designer: Charis Suddaby
Sound: Leon O’Neill
Composer: Seti the First

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

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12 Myrtle St
Dublin 7
Ireland

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