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  • Title: Necessities of Life, The [Ce qu'il faut pour vivre] / Impressions de tour
  • Summary: An Inuit hunter named Tivii with tuberculosis leaves his northern home to go recuperate at a sanatorium in Quebec City.
  • Director: Benoit Pilon
  • Cast: Denis Bernard, Paul-André Brasseur, Éveline Gélinas, Elisapie Isaac, Vincent-Guillaume Otis
  • Year: 2008
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  • Keywords: Indigenous
  • Format: DVD
  • Relation: Atanarjuat, Before Tomorrow, The Journals of Knud Rasmussen, Never Cry Wolf
  • Language: French with English subtitles
  • Country: Canada
  • Comments: The DVD includes an audio commentary by the director, an 17 minute French-language documentary about the making of the film ("Impressions de tour"), photographs and the theatrical trailer.
  • Collection: Drama