The Revenant is a Western semi-biographical film .
The Revenant is a 2015 American epic Western semi-biographical drama film directed and co-produced by Alejandro G. Iñárritu and co-written by Iñárritu and Mark L. Smith , based in part on Michael Punke 's novel of the same name , describing frontiersman Hugh Glass 's experiences in 1823 .
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