FILM IN FOCUS: Man of Aran

FILM IN FOCUS: Man of Aran


Set around 1930, Man of Aran (Robert J. Flaherty, 1934) is an early and classic documentary that describes the often difficult life of the men and women who live on the isolated Aran islands off the coast of western Ireland.



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