The Legend of the North Wind
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The Legend of the North Wind | |
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Directed by | Carlos Varela Maite Ruiz de Austri (originally credited directors) Juan Bautista Berasategi (original director, uncredited) |
Written by | Gregorio Muro Carlos Varela Maite Ruiz de Austri Joxan Muñoz |
Produced by | Iñigo Silva Mikel Arregi Santi Uriarte |
Starring | English language voice cast: Sonja Ball Daniel Brochu A.J. Henderson Rick Jones Terrence Scammell |
Cinematography | Eduardo Elósegi |
Edited by | José Salcedo |
Music by | Alejandro Massó |
Production companies | Episa and Euskal Pictures International |
Distributed by | Nelvana |
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Running time | 69 minutes |
Country | Spain |
Languages | Basque Spanish |
The Legend of the North Wind is a 1992
It was produced in the Spain under the working title of Balleneros (Basque title: Balearenak), before being released in 1992 as La leyenda del viento del Norte (
).Originally, the released film was credited to Maite Ruiz de Austri and Carlos Varela, but Berasategi sued the producers for plagiarism, charging that the majority of the film was developed under his direction, and that Ruiz de Austri and Varela had received undue credit for what was actually his work. Berasategi eventually won the case, and received legal recognition as the film's director. This is reflected on more recent releases of the film, in which the original director credit is replaced with a new credit for Berasategi.
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The Spanish release was followed by a 13-episode
Synopsis
To get his hands on a valuable pod of whales, a 17th-century European daredevil in
Voice cast
Basque version (original version)
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Spanish version
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English version
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References
- ^ "The Whale-Watching-Web: Cetacean Videography--Films, Videos, Visual CDS, DVDS, Television Programs, Computers Games, Online Clips". Archived from the original on 5 November 2006. Retrieved 6 November 2006.
- ^ "Sales of programmes". www.eitb.com. Archived from the original on 27 December 2004.