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Death of a Stag (1951)
Directed by Dimitri Kirsanoff
Overview
Russian emigré Dimitri Kirsanoff’s film, alternatively titled Death of A Stag and Une chasse à courre, is a post-war study of a traditional stag hunt. The pursuit of the animal finds a cross-cutting parallel in the felling of a tree in the forest.
Length 12 minutes