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Overview
In 1934, Elzire Dionne delivered five identical girls. The Dionne Quintuplets follows Cecile, Emilie, Marie, Yvonne and Annette through twenty-one years of strange upbringing. When the girls were just infants, the premier of Ontario issued a court order removing them from parental care. Cut off from the world and their family, over-publicized, viewed twice daily in a special viewing compound, they grew up as prize exhibits. Director Donald Brittain uses old newsreel footage, home-movie sequences and interviews to depict a historic event that became a tragic exploitation of a family.
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- November 19, 1978
- Original language
- English
- Countries
- Canada
- Production
- CBC,National Film Board of Canada,ONF,NFB,ONF | NFB
- Director
- Donald Brittain
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- IMDb
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