Plot Summary
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.
Movie Details
- Original Title
- La mort d'un bûcheron
- Status
- released
- Original Language
- fr
- Budget
- $250K
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Cast
Carole Laure
Marie Chapdeleine
Willie Lamothe
Armand St. Amour
Daniel Pilon
François Paradis
Pauline Julien
Charlotte Juillet
Marcel Sabourin
Ti-Noir L'Esperance
Denise Filiatrault
Blanche Bellefeuille
Jacques Gagnon
Roger Le Bel
Paper employee union archivist
Ernest Guimond
Wilfred
Jacques Bouchard
Yvonne Diabo
J. Léo Gagnon
Bobby Hachey
Eugene Lahache
Gil LaRoche
Marcel Fournier
Production Companies
Cinévision
