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Shadow Chasers

Shadow Chasers

2000•58m
Documentary

This feature-length documentary is a portrait of eclipse chasers, people for whom solar eclipses - among nature's more spectacular phenomena – are a veritable obsession. The film follows 4 of them as they travel incredible distances to witness the last total eclipse of the millennium as it sweeps eastward across Europe to India. At various points along the way enthusiasts Alain Cirou in France, Paul Houde in Austria, Olivier Staiger in Germany and Debasis Sarkar in India offer their impressions of the historic event.

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Production

ONF | NFB

Language

FR

Status

Released

Release Date

Cast

Alain Cirou

Alain Cirou

Himself

Olivier Staiger

Himself

Debasis Sarkar

Himself

Madeleine Arsenault

Madeleine Arsenault

Narrator

James Hyndman

James Hyndman

Narrator

Paul Houde

Paul Houde

Himself

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