Overview
This meditative French-Canadian film tells the story of a young woman's search for the father she has never known. Marie Chapdelaine (Carole Laure) grew up in a remote area of Quebec without ever knowing her father, a lumberjack. She moves to Montreal, settles in there with a job as a topless dancer and begins her search for him. Eventually, with the help of his former mistress, they find the lumber camp he was working in, only to discover that he was killed in a labor dispute.
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- January 25, 1973
- Original language
- French
- Spoken languages
- French
- Countries
- Canada
- Production
- Cinévision
- Cast
- Carole Laure,Eugene Lahache,Pauline Julien,Marcel Sabourin,Denise Filiatrault,Yvonne Diabo,Roger Le Bel,Jacques Bouchard,J. Léo Gagnon,Daniel Pilonand 6 more
- Director
- Gilles Carle
- Writer
- Gilles Carle,Arthur Lamothe
- Cinematography
- René Verzier
- Budget
- $250,000
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
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