Directed by John Hanson, Rob Nilsson • Drama • 1978 • US • English
Starring Robert Behling, Susan Lynch, Joe Spano

Cannes Camera d'Or winner "Northern Lights" is a powerful work of political cinema that dramatizes the formation of the populist Nonpartisan League in North Dakota in the mid-1910s. With a cast of non-actors, it captures the plight of immigrant Dakotan farmers as they toil and struggle against forces of industry and finance. Amid this tension, two young lovers find themselves swept up in the tide.