Prairie Fire

Name: Prairie Fire
Genre: Documentary
Released: 1977
Duration: 30 min

1977 · 30 min

Documentary

Criterion

The first segment of what would eventually be the Prairie Trilogy, about veteran North Dakota poet and socialist organizer Henry Martinson, who fought against economic exploitation. Martinson recounts the 1916 birth of the Socialist Nonpartisan League, his narrative accompanied by images shot by Nilsson’s own grandfather, Frithjof Holmboe.

Crew

Director Rob Nilsson
Director John Hanson

Cast

H
Henry Martinson
Narrator (voice)
Eugene Corr
Self - Speaker (voice) (as Gene Corr)
D
Dan Leegant
Self - Speaker (voice)

Crew

Director — Rob Nilsson
Director — John Hanson

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