Country: USA
Year: 1999
Duration: 247'


Situated in Maine, Belfast is a typical small US town of 6,000 inhabitants, 99% of whom are white. The film recounts an unusual social situation: having enjoyed a more prestigious industrial past, Belfast is now in the throes of economic recession, and, in spite of possessing some of the best natural resources around, has become one of Maine's poorest towns.

Biography

film director

Frederick Wiseman

Frederick Wiseman was born in Cambridge, Massachusetts in 1930. After studying law at Yale, he became a member of the Massachusetts Bar Association and worked as a researcher at the University of Boston, Brandeis and Harvard. In 1967 he decided to dedicate himself to cinema and started making independent documentaries. In 1970 he founded Zipporah Films, which distributes his work. He continued his academic research, has obtained numerous recognitions and has published books and magazine articles. Wiseman is also active in theater.

FILMOGRAFIA

Titicut Follies (1967), High School (1969), Law and Order (1969), Hospital (1970), Basic Training (1971), Essene (1972), Jouvenil Court (1973), Primate (1974), Welfare (1975), Meat (1976), Canal Zone (1977), Sinai Field Mission (1978), Manoeuvre (1979), Model (1980), Seraphita's Diary (1980), The Store (1983), Racetrack (1985), Blind (1986), Multi-Handicapped (1986), Adjustment and Work (1986), Deaf (1986), Missile (1986), Central Park (1989), Near Death (1989), Aspen (1991), Zoo (1993), Hight School II (1994), Ballet (1995), La Comédie Français ou l'Amour Joué (1996), Public Housing (1997), Belfast, Maine (1999), Domestic Violence (2001), Domestic Violence II

Cast

& Credits

Regia, suono e montaggio: Frederick Wiseman.
Director of photography: John Davey.
Producer: Frederick Wiseman.
Production company: Belfast Film, Inc.
Foreign sales agent: Zipporah Films, 1 Richdale Avenue, Unit 4, Cambridge, MA 02140, USA, tel. +1-617-5763603, fax +1-617-8648006.
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