The Death of a Lumberjack (1973)
La mort d'un bûcheron
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.
- Date of release
- 1973-01-25
- TMDB
- 4.9 / 10 (9)
- Runtime
- 1h 55m
- Genres
- Drama
- Director
- Gilles Carle
Casting
- 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
Interesting facts
The Death of a Lumberjack is a 1973 Canadian drama film directed and co-written by Gilles Carle. The film was entered into the 1973 Cannes Film Festival.
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